Games Like The Forever Winter

Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 42.3% ★, Looter Shooter 22.7% ★, Gun Customization 14.9% ★, PvE 8%, Tactical 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same brutally punishing, high-stakes extraction shooter design and detailed tactical loot-scavenging loops.

IRR is a tactical PvE Co-Op extract shooter set in a de-stabilized and immersive modern-day Vietnam. As a PMC for a mysterious organization, deal with 3 factions that stand to gain from the chaos. Engage in ruthless combat, plan your deployment, and explore the world as your journey unfolds.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 44.2% ★, Looter Shooter 18.3% ★, Gun Customization 14% ★, PvE 8.5%, Tactical 5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar gritty, tactical extraction experience centered on survival, PvE combat, and completing operations in hostile territory.

Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 57.6% ★, Gun Customization 16.2% ★, PvE 9.9%, Tactical 7.9%, Shooter 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an uncompromising, realistic tactical shooter environment focused on tense extraction mechanics and dangerous open-world zones.

Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 58% ★, Looter Shooter 31.2% ★, Shooter 5.5%, Tactical 4.2%, Action 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a bleak dieselpunk aesthetic with dangerous extraction-based looter-shooter gameplay against hostile forces.

GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

Why similar: Difficult 20.9%, Horror 15%, Co-op 12.5%, Shooter 12.1%, Team-Based 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same suffocating, dark cooperative horror atmosphere where careful resource management and survival against monstrous odds are vital.

Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 55.4% ★, Looter Shooter 24.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Shooter 4.9%, Action 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: Translates the grueling post-apocalyptic loot-and-extract survival loop into a tense, atmospheric top-down experience.

Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 28% ★, Extraction Shooter 20.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Gun Customization 15.4% ★, PvE 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hardcore survival elements, realistic gunplay, and navigating a dangerous, post-apocalyptic border zone.

PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 53.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 31.4%, Shooter 12%, Action 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar dark, dystopian sci-fi survival setting filled with monstrous threats and tense cooperative looter-shooter gameplay.

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: Mechs 25.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, PvE 13.5%, Horror 9.7%, Co-op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Pits players against towering, terrifying mechanical automata in an oppressive post-apocalyptic open world.

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 53.5% ★, Third-Person Shooter 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, PvE 8.9%, Shooter 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Pits players against colossal mechanized threats in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic sci-fi extraction setting.

STALZONE is the PvPvE extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with persistent world worth belonging to. You are invited to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone twisted by anomalies and divided between rival factions whose territories shape the danger around you

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 56.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Looter Shooter 13.7% ★, PvE 7.2%, Shooter 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world post-apocalyptic survival with gritty extraction-style mechanics in a hazardous environment.

Join dangerous raids for loot or intense PvP/PvE battles in this new realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse. Fight in quantum-unstable zones for control of active matter - the substance that bends time and space.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 59.8% ★, PvE 11.6%, Horror 8.1%, Shooter 6.9%, Co-op 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a spooky, high-stakes extraction shooter experience filled with anomalous horror and deadly encounters.

Tactical extraction shooter meets immersive survival horror. Play as rival mercenaries fighting for loot, or as alien monsters hunting humans from the shadows. Solo or with friends, experience this unique dark take on asymmetrical PvPvE multiplayer.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 55.7% ★, Gun Customization 13.1% ★, PvE 10.6%, Tactical 7.2%, Horror 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intense survival horror mechanics with high-stakes extraction shooter tension and deadly alien adversaries.

SCP: 5K is a co-op or singleplayer tactical horror FPS project that puts players in the midst of a conspiracy where the SCP Foundation has turned on humanity. Enjoy Early Access as we continue to work towards a completed full release of the project!

Why similar: Gun Customization 36.5% ★, Co-op 17.4%, Horror 14.9%, Tactical 14.3%, Shooter 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a tactical, cooperative horror shooter experience where teamwork and survival against monstrous entities are paramount.

Fight, loot, and escape in a hardcore FPS world filled with deadly zombies and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables, trade items, and survive your escape from the massive Liberty Grand Center complex.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 53.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, PvE 9.7%, Team-Based 9.1%, Horror 7%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in a dark, horror-infused extraction shooter where survival requires navigating hordes of deadly enemies.

No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 39.5% ★, Co-op 14.3%, Horror 13.4%, PvE 12.4%, Shooter 12%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes brutal, desperate cooperative survival against relentless horrors where death is always around the corner.

Cargo Hunters is an extraction shooter where you control a humanoid robot scavenging the remains of humanity on an abandoned, dystopian Earth. Play solo or in 4 players co-op.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 40% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Gun Customization 10.7% ★, Dystopian 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative third-person extraction gameplay centered on securing valuable loot in dangerous zones.

Ghosts of Tabor is VRs only FPS PVP and PVE survival game where you will use your wits, skills and resources to survive. Inspired by games such as Escape from Tarkov and DayZ, featuring different scenarios from scavenging to looting and crafting. Will you survive long enough to make it out alive?

Why similar: Looter Shooter 36.2% ★, Extraction Shooter 26.3% ★, Dystopian 14.3%, Shooter 8.2%, PvE 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a hardcore VR extraction shooter experience that tests players' survival instincts in dangerous, desolate regions.

Witchfire is a first-person dark fantasy RPG shooter in which you play as a wicked sinner turned witch hunter on his final mission to reach salvation.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 56.6% ★, PvE 14.2%, Shooter 10.2%, Horror 9.3%, Character Customization 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a dark, uncompromising, and difficult shooter focused on surviving against overwhelming cosmic and monstrous forces.

Explore the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV, scavenging valuable loot in a high-stakes survival first person shooter from the creators of Halo and Destiny.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 68.8% ★, Gun Customization 9.1% ★, PvE 6.8%, Shooter 6.4%, Sci-fi 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Explores a dark sci-fi extraction shooter universe centered on survival and resource gathering against heavy odds.

SYNTHETIK 2 is a unrelenting tactical-shooter rogue-lite. Play alone or with friends. Loot powerful tech. Experience the next level in gun-play. Upgrade your androids to rival the machine gods!

Why similar: Gun Customization 33.6% ★, PvE 17.9%, Shooter 13.3%, Character Customization 12.7%, Tactical 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the theme of fighting rogue, high-tech AI automata in a relentless, difficult sci-fi combat setting.

Granvir is a 3rd person action roguelite mech-builder with co-op multiplayer. Scavenge the battlefield for parts to replace and upgrade your Granvir and weaponry. PIlot your Granvir and manage your campaign between battles to find the best equipment and stay supplied while fighting a guerilla war.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 32.8% ★, Mechs 26.3% ★, Third-Person Shooter 20.6%, Third Person 8.8%, Shooter 6%

Why You'll Like It: Features heavy mechanical combat and tactical squad operations in gritty, unforgiving scenarios.

C.A.S.T is a third-person PvE extraction shooter playable solo or in co-op. Select your character and loadout to battle enemy hordes, evade anomalies, and complete objectives across handcrafted maps with dynamic procedural elements.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 43.3% ★, Third-Person Shooter 15.3%, Gun Customization 14.2% ★, PvE 9.2%, Shooter 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers cooperative tactical PvE action against strange anomalies and hazardous environments.

Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.5%, Horror 22.7%, Shooter 21.9%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a raw, immersive sandbox exploration and survival experience in gritty industrial settings.

Return to the world of high-octane mech combat in Hawken Reborn. Construct your ultimate war machine and shoot your way through hordes of enemies to uncover the mysteries of Ilall in this brand-new Free-to-Play PVE mech game.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 29.4% ★, Mechs 24.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, PvE 11.3%, Shooter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Centers heavily on combat involving heavy mechanical units and surviving hostile war-torn environments.

Survive as long as you can through the waves of magic guardians, level up to heighten your own magical abilities, and unlock game changing weapon upgrades and new arenas as you explore Dark Willow Crypt! Will you escape, or are you bound for the grave...

Why similar: Shooter 39.8%, PvE 37.7%, Action 22.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on dark fantasy looter-shooter combat and surviving against grim, relentless adversaries.

Team up, gear up, and make it out alive in this 2D co-op extraction shooter.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 42.9% ★, Looter Shooter 28.2% ★, Gun Customization 15.7% ★, Shooter 7.3%, Post-apocalyptic 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a classic looter-shooter survival loop relying on tactical decision-making in hostile sectors.

Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) is a mission based co-op PvE for 1-4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Explore, upgrade, and survive intense encounters in deep space together.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 43.8% ★, PvE 19.2%, Co-op 12.2%, Shooter 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%

Gravebound is a 6-player co-op extraction shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by rogue machines. Scavenge valuable loot, survive intense firefights, complete dynamic objectives, and extract alive to keep what you earn. Push deeper for rarer rewards, tougher enemies, and higher stakes.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 24.9% ★, Extraction Shooter 24.2% ★, Third-Person Shooter 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, PvE 8.3%

Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 37.3% ★, Extraction Shooter 37.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Shooter 2.6%, PvE 1.8%

Mecha action shooter, plunging the player into an apocalyptic war. Engage in epic battles with endless hordes of monsters in your powerful customizable mechs.

Why similar: Mechs 35.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Shooter 8.2%, Third Person 7.7%, Third-Person Shooter 7.1%

CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 41% ★, Looter Shooter 21.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Gun Customization 12.6% ★, Shooter 5.4%

Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

Why similar: PvE 27.5%, Horror 18.1%, Co-op 17.5%, Character Customization 16.7%, Shooter 16.2%

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 45.4% ★, Looter Shooter 22.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Gun Customization 12.5% ★, Shooter 5%

SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 58.2% ★, Gun Customization 22.2% ★, Difficult 12.2%, Shooter 7.4%

In this PvPvE extraction shooter, players, aided by an AI partner known as a Magus, must survive against xenomorphic creatures and other players in the hunt for resources.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 36% ★, Looter Shooter 19.6% ★, Mechs 13.6% ★, Third-Person Shooter 9.4%, PvE 6.7%

DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: ROGUE CORE is a 1-4 player co-op shooter with sci-fi dwarves, procedurally-generated caves and random roguelike upgrades. Explore maze-like mines and blast through hordes of alien abominations — no two runs are the same. Move quickly, work together and shoot first to survive.

Why similar: PvE 26.4%, Co-op 17.1%, Shooter 14.5%, Horror 14.4%, Character Customization 12.9%

Exit Ways is a PvEvP survival extraction shooter. Grow your community in a zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, craft gear and build a base.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 52.6% ★, Looter Shooter 13.2% ★, PvE 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%, Shooter 5.8%

Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 30.4% ★, Looter Shooter 29.9% ★, Third-Person Shooter 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Shooter 5.7%

Cut through fungal aliens in this hyper-customizable, mission based looter shooter. Hundreds of hand-crafted upgrades, 4-player co-op, and a little roach man. What’s not to love?

Why similar: Looter Shooter 51.6% ★, PvE 19.1%, Shooter 12.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Action 4.6%

Starship Troopers: Extermination is an up to 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!

Why similar: PvE 33%, Co-op 21.2%, Shooter 20.6%, Sci-fi 19.3%, Action 5.9%

A co-op horror game where you team up with friends to hunt anomalies and collect rare loot. Customize your loadouts, your looks, and get to work!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 36.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, PvE 13.8%, Horror 10.3%, Character Customization 8.9%

Fast paced Bullet hell Roguelite FPS 🔴 Fight relentless machines driven by a hostile AI. Escape an endless cycle. Craft infinite weapon variants with deep gun modding. Forge deadly synergies. Carve your way out through enviro destruction /BREAK THE SYSTEM /BREAK FREE

Why similar: Gun Customization 44.9% ★, Difficult 24.6%, Shooter 15.3%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Action 3.4%

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 27.4%, Co-op 12.3%, Shooter 12.1%, Horror 11.3%, Character Customization 10.2%

Tankenstein is a 3rd person ARPG where the player controls a dishevelled tank in a post apocalyptic wasteland looking for new parts to survive and upgrade itself. All of the other tanks in the scrapyard have the same goal, which makes them hostile in this survival of the fittest arena.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 35.3% ★, Third-Person Shooter 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Dystopian 8.5%, Difficult 7%

Arena Breakout: Infinite is a high-stakes tactical extraction shooter where every decision matters. Fight, loot, and extract—or lose it all. With stunningly realistic visuals, lifelike sound, and unforgiving PvPvE combat, every raid is a gamble between glory and ruin.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 66.6% ★, Gun Customization 19.9% ★, Shooter 7%, Tactical 5.5%, Action 1.1%

Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 54.4% ★, Dystopian 15.4%, Difficult 10.4%, Tactical 7%, Choices Matter 5.8%

The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.

Why similar: Mechs 54.1% ★, PvE 14.4%, Shooter 14.3%, Co-op 13.6%, Action 3.7%

RIG Riot is a roguelike third-person mech-action shooter. Fight increasingly difficult enemies while completing objectives, level up, and choose the Weapons and Volatile Mods that will let you return from your raids victorious. Discover thousands of permanent parts, and build a RIG unlike any other.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 29.7% ★, Mechs 21% ★, Third-Person Shooter 16.8%, Difficult 9.4%, Character Customization 7.1%

Knights Within is a hack&slash horde shooter with roguelite elements. Design custom loadouts, navigate procedurally generated levels and utilize random power-ups. Either solo or with friends, can you survive endless waves of enemies to ensure humanity's survival?

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 22.4%, Gun Customization 18.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Difficult 13.7%, PvE 12.2%

Dark Light: Survivor is a dark sci-fi action roguelike with ARPG loot and third-person shooter combat. Switch anytime between top-down view and TPS aiming as you build weapons, skills, and classes across brutal multiverse runs.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 40.9%, Post-apocalyptic 38.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Horror 6.4%, Action 4.9%

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: Post-apocalyptic 38.8%, PvE 20.1%, Horror 16.6%, Co-op 13%, Shooter 11.4%

Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 48.4% ★, Looter Shooter 22.8% ★, Gun Customization 9.4% ★, Shooter 6.7%, Third-Person Shooter 5.7%

Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Crafting-survival Indie game. Explore at your own pace or team up with your friends in multiplayer. Early access game!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 29.8% ★, Gun Customization 17.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Dystopian 15.4%, Third-Person Shooter 13.7%

Ripout is an online Co-Op horror FPS that will have players fight their way through procedurally generated derelict ships filled with mutants capable of reconfiguring their alien bodies. Survive with your trusty Pet Gun companion, collect loot, and customize your character to fit your playstyle.

Why similar: PvE 27.2%, Horror 22.9%, Shooter 19.3%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Character Customization 11.7%

Yee-haw, Cowboys! Team up in this chaotic 1-4 player co-op shooter. Journey to the Far Far West to blast monsters, sling spells, complete missions, and collect bounties. Work as a team to get in, get paid and get out (mostly) alive.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 60.2% ★, PvE 12.6%, Shooter 7.5%, Difficult 7.5%, Co-op 7.2%