Games Like The Front

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 27.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a very similar aesthetic and gameplay loop, combining supernatural survival elements with extensive base-building and multiplayer exploration.

'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% ★, Tower Defense 10.6%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It heavily emphasizes the tower-defense aspect of survival, requiring players to build elaborate traps and defenses against nightly hordes.

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 27.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Tower Defense 9.8%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive survival game that perfectly mirrors the tower-defense and base-fortification mechanics found in The Front.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep base-building and survival mechanics with a focus on managing tribes and defending your territory.

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 25.2% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for multiplayer open-world survival, focusing heavily on base-building, raiding, and tactical combat.

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 28.4% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game features high-stakes crafting and base-building mechanics that reward tactical planning.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Building 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes large-scale base building and strategic warfare in a persistent multiplayer 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 37.2% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging open-world survival game that focuses on long-term base development and resource management against AI threats.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 16.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival experience that centers on taming, crafting, and building large-scale bases in a dangerous environment.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Open World 15%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines voxel-based building with survival exploration, offering a polished experience for players who enjoy constructing elaborate shelters.

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 25.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and base-building, requiring players to craft and defend their homes in a dangerous, oversized world.

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 35.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This water-based survival game features modular base-building and combat against factions, much like the empire-fighting in The Front.

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 31.3% ★, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on exploration, its building mechanics and survival progression are highly rewarding for fans of the genre.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: An upcoming massive multiplayer survival game that emphasizes resource gathering and base construction in a harsh, iconic desert 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 20.6%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes realistic crafting, building, and defense against waves of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 28.2% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and maintaining a high-tech airship base while exploring a ruined, post-apocalyptic world.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 18.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 15.8%, Building 13%, Online Co-Op 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base management with a focus on leading a rebellion, mirroring the resistance fighter theme of the seed game.

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 22.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that captures the tension of scavenging and building a secure base in a world overrun by zombies.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed, hardcore survival game that offers deep crafting and realistic combat mechanics for dedicated players.

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: Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you must defend your drillship against volcanic eruptions and mechanical enemies.

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 30.4% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that focuses on PvP and PvE combat in a large, open world with base-building elements.

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 28.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward open-world survival experience with a strong focus on crafting and base-building.

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 28.9% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival and base-building with a focus on defending against AI enemies in a persistent open world.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.3%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique nomadic survival experience where building mobile bases is essential to outrunning a dying world.

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 22.9%, Survival 21%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Co-op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at base management and survival, forcing players to fortify their home against constant zombie threats.

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 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 7.8%

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 36.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that allows for extensive base construction and exploration on alien planets.

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 27.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival shooter that emphasizes looting, crafting, and defending your base from other players and AI.

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 30.6% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate survival simulator that requires meticulous planning and base fortification to survive the inevitable end.

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 44.5% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on exploration, base-building, and intense multiplayer combat.

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Survival 17%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Co-op 10%

Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%, Tower Defense 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%

Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?

Why similar: Tower Defense 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.2%

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 27.9% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.6%

Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8.4%

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 41.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.8%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9.2%, Survival 9%

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 26.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Multiplayer 8%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.2%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 8.1%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.7%

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Building 8%

Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.9%

Survive in a post-apocalyptic open-world sandbox alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by heat and chaos. Build a base, develop skills, craft tools and weapons, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, earn faction reputation, or take part in faction wars.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.9%, Building 9.1%

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 44.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Crafting 6.4%

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 11.1%

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 32.6% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 8%, Co-op 7.1%

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Building 7.9%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Tower Defense 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.1%

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%

Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Co-op 9.4%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.5%, Survival 8.7%

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 27.7% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 7.3%

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 30.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.7%, Survival 8.2%

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 31.1% ★, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 9.5%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.6%