Games Like The Front

'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 22.5% ★, Tower Defense 10.8%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It places a heavy emphasis on trap-based tower defense and base fortification against massive zombie hordes.

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 29.2% ★, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features large-scale warfare and deep base-building mechanics that mirror the grand-scale conflict of The Front.

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 26.9% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Tower Defense 9.9%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive survival game that perfectly balances base-building with wave-based tower defense mechanics similar to 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 26.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A modern, high-production survival game that shares the shooter-focused combat and complex base-building mechanics.

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex survival systems with a unique focus on tribe management and extensive base construction.

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 24.8% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.5%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: As the primary inspiration for the genre, it offers the same high-stakes PvP, base raiding, and survival progression found in The Front.

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 36.6% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 7.9%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that focuses heavily on base defense against aggressive AI and environmental threats.

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 25.4% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 9%, Survival 8%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces a unique twist on base-building by allowing players to construct and upgrade mobile drill-ships.

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 27.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features session-based survival with a strong emphasis on tech progression and defensive base construction.

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 27% ★, Survival 13.6%, Building 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust survival experience with deep building mechanics and a harsh, unforgiving open 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 34.9% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A water-themed survival game that emphasizes base-building and raiding in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 25.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective with deep base-building mechanics in a world where you are tiny compared to nature.

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 16.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: The benchmark for open-world survival crafting, offering deep progression and massive base-building potential.

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 29.8% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that prioritizes realistic combat and base construction in a large open world.

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 31.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep and realistic survival simulation with a focus on character management and tactical gameplay.

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 27.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features atmospheric survival with a focus on maintaining and upgrading a mobile airship base.

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 20.3%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival mechanics with a heavy emphasis on crafting and defending against zombie threats.

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 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that centers on terraforming a barren world through extensive base-building and resource management.

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 21.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes scavenging and base fortification in a zombie-infested world.

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 28.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival crafting with a strong focus on base defense against mutant threats.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down action with satisfying base-building and a progression system that rewards strategic planning.

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 30.7% ★, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and satisfying building mechanics within a Norse-inspired survival framework.

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 25.2%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features nomadic survival mechanics where players must build and maintain mobile bases to survive a rotating world.

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 32.6% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Greek-mythology inspired survival game that provides a solid foundation for building and exploration.

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 41.3% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes combat, crafting, and base construction in an alien environment.

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 26.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 7.8%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.1%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced survival game that emphasizes PvP combat and vehicle-based progression.

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 44.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on scavenging, base building, and intense PvP encounters.

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 30.2% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The most detailed survival simulation available, offering unparalleled depth in base fortification and scavenging.

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 24.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.6%

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 28.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.9%

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% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Multiplayer 8%

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 17.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

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 23.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Tower Defense 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.5%

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 35.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on exploration, resource gathering, and defending bases from alien threats.

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%

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 16.8%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Co-op 10.3%

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 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.9%, 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 27.4% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.7%

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 18.6%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 15.5%, Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 10.6%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.1%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 23.3% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.4%

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 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.9%

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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.7%

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 34.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 8.1%

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 30.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Building 8%

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 27.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 32.3% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8%, Co-op 7.2%

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 34.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, Building 9.1%

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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 23.6% ★, Tower Defense 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.1%

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 14%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.9%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.4%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 28.9% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.4%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 27.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.6%, Survival 8.7%

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 26.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, Co-op 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%

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 30.6% ★, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Co-op 9.6%