Games Like The Last Plague: Blight

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 60.4% ★, Survival 19.4%, Sandbox 5.5%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%, Atmospheric 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly grounded and atmospheric survival experience where environmental hazards and resource scarcity are your primary enemies.

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 40.6% ★, Survival 20.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game shares the same focus on realistic health management, disease, and punishingly difficult long-term survival.

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 41.7% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Realistic 9%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the realistic crafting and survival mechanics while emphasizing the importance of managing health and status effects in a harsh wilderness.

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 52.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a challenging, realistic survival experience with a strong emphasis on building a secure base to survive against AI threats.

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 39.9% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 11.4%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival with robust base-building mechanics that feel very similar to the core loop of managing a home base against threats.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Co-op 5.4%, Sandbox 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features an intense focus on realistic injury and disease management that directly parallels the survival challenges found in the Blight.

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 33.6%, Medieval 20.5%, Building 20%, Co-op 14.2%, Third Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base-building with a medieval setting, requiring you to manage resources and expand your settlement in a dangerous 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 50.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Realistic 10.8%, Third Person 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Known for its hyper-realistic metabolism and survival systems, it provides the same level of granular detail in character maintenance.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 19%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 14.3%, Co-op 12.3%, Sandbox 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focusing on long-term survival and settlement management, it provides a grounded experience that rewards careful planning and resource gathering.

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 33.7% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 11%, Co-op 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on survival and base-building, requiring players to maintain their mobile airship base while scavenging for resources.

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 53.2% ★, Survival 22.4%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of a lonely, dangerous world where scavenging and base fortification are the only ways to stay alive.

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 38.9% ★, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a persistent world where base-building and survival against waves of threats are essential to overcoming the environment.

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 44.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 13.4%, Building 10.9%, Co-op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game features deep crafting and exploration mechanics within a mysterious, shifting world that rewards careful preparation.

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 37.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 12.3%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique perspective on survival and base-building, focusing on environmental scale and resource gathering in a dangerous world.

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 13.1%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the atmospheric and psychological toll of surviving in a frozen, unforgiving environment.

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 40.7% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 13.6%, Building 8.1%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes realistic crafting and environmental survival in a hostile, alien landscape.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Survival 18.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Co-op 11.2%, Sandbox 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished survival experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics set within a hostile, oversized environment.

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 29.6%, Survival 28.8%, Co-op 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on base management and survival against a spreading threat, requiring players to make difficult choices to keep their community alive.

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 31.5%, Survival 28%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Co-op 9%

Why You'll Like It: While featuring a top-down perspective, it offers excellent base-building and survival progression that rewards strategic planning.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 35.8%, Survival 25.1%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 14.1%, Atmospheric 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down colony simulator excels at managing complex survival needs, diseases, and base construction under constant pressure.

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 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Building 14.5%, Co-op 12.3%, Third Person 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on realistic survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic world filled with threats that require constant vigilance.

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 39% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game features extensive base-building and crafting systems that are essential for defending against waves of enemies.

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 24%, Survival 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Co-op 14.3%, Sandbox 13%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a gritty, realistic take on survival in a zombie-infested world with a strong emphasis on scavenging and base defense.

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 58.5% ★, Survival 16.9%, Building 6.1%, Realistic 5.8%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the raw basics of survival, requiring players to craft tools and shelter while managing health and hydration on a deserted island.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.1% ★, Survival 26.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Difficult 3.9%, Top-Down 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic top-down survival game that emphasizes resource management and the constant threat of death from hunger and environmental hazards.

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 45.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Building 8.8%, Third Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a survival experience focused on exploration and crafting, allowing players to build their own path through a dangerous, mythical world.

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 41.3% ★, Survival 26.3%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Co-op 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more multiplayer-focused, it provides the ultimate test of base-building and survival against both the elements and other players.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Sandbox 26%, Survival 24.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sandbox survival game that allows for total freedom in how you build your base and survive in a brutal, unforgiving world.

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Base Building 24%, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Resource Management 15.2%

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 21.5%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Co-op 5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a vast open world with extensive base-building and survival mechanics that emphasize progression and resource management.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Co-op 9.3%

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 38.9% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%

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 42.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.3%, Co-op 6.5%

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 48.4% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 14.2%, Building 11.9%, Co-op 5.8%

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.8% ★, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Realistic 10.3%

'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 39.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.8%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival 11.7%, Building 10.7%

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 41.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Realistic 6.8%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Sandbox 21.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Building 14%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10.1%

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 48.6% ★, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Medieval 10.8%, Building 10%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.4%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Medieval 8.8%

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Immersive 20.7% ★, Survival 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 34.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Realistic 11.1%

Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.9%

An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 11.6%, Building 9.1%, Medieval 8.1%

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 41% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.5%

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Realistic 9.6%, Resource Management 8.5%

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Third Person 10.6%, Survival 10%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Realistic 8.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

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 35.4% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 17.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Realistic 7.2%

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 30%, Base Building 28.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Top-Down 15.3%, Atmospheric 4.4%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.9% ★, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Dark 6.6%, Atmospheric 3%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.5% ★, Survival 19.8%, Co-op 9.5%, Sandbox 6.4%, Difficult 3.1%