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 52.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly uncompromising focus on realistic survival, environmental hazards, and the constant struggle against the elements.

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 32.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Realistic 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the realistic survival focus of the seed game, requiring careful management of health, hunger, and crafting in a hostile environment.

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 33.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the top-down perspective and deep, punishing survival mechanics, particularly regarding disease and long-term resource management.

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: Crafting 16%, Building 14.2%, Medieval 13.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a grounded medieval survival experience with a strong emphasis on building and long-term development.

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 34.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the brutal reality of surviving in harsh conditions, matching the atmospheric tension found in the seed game.

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: Medieval 20.2%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 17.4%, Building 12.7%, Open World 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines medieval survival with base-building and management, capturing the community-building aspects of the seed game.

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 42.5% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on hardcore survival and base-building in a challenging, realistic open world.

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 42.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a premier example of hardcore survival realism, emphasizing detailed health management and environmental threats.

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 34.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival, crafting, and base-building with a focus on exploration and overcoming environmental 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 29.9% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9%, Realistic 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a blend of survival, base-building, and combat that mirrors the core loop of the seed game.

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: Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a brutal, unforgiving open world where survival is a constant challenge, fitting the difficult nature of the seed game.

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 42.4% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on realistic survival against environmental threats and enemies, capturing a similar tone of isolation.

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 30.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival perspective with deep crafting and base-building mechanics in a dangerous, immersive world.

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 24%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 12.2%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: The top-down perspective and focus on base-building and survival mechanics make it a strong mechanical parallel.

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 35.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of survival and crafting with a focus on exploration and managing complex survival needs.

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

Why You'll Like It: This title combines base-building and survival with a focus on defending against threats in an open world.

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 38.9% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.7%, Realistic 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features an incredibly detailed metabolism and survival system that caters to players who value extreme realism.

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 42.9% ★, Survival 20.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a top-down perspective to deliver a challenging survival experience focused on resource gathering and environmental management.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Open World 24.2%, Survival 21.6%, Co-op 18.6%, Difficult 11.1%, Third Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the difficulty of survival and preparation, requiring players to manage their needs carefully in a dangerous world.

'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 30% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It incorporates tower-defense elements into a survival framework, focusing on base-building and resource management.

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 37.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.1%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival experience focused on exploration and crafting within a challenging open world.

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 33.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on base-building and surviving against constant threats makes it a staple for fans of the genre.

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 37.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.5%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a survival experience focused on water-based exploration, crafting, and base-building.

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 21.4%, Survival 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic approach to zombie survival with a focus on base-building and scavenging in an open world.

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 36.3% ★, Medieval 14%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic medieval survival experience with a heavy focus on crafting and community building.

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 33.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes preparation and environmental management in a hostile setting.

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 36.1% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features robust survival and base-building mechanics that emphasize environmental awareness and resource management.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 6.8%, Realistic 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the raw struggle for survival in an isolated environment, emphasizing realistic crafting and health needs.

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 27.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 8.1%, Survival 8.1%

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 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Sandbox 9%

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 19.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Sandbox 12.3%

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 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.1%, Realistic 8.7%

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 36.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9.7%

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%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Building 11.3%

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 37.4% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Realistic 9.8%

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 29.2% ★, Medieval 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.2%

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 38% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 6.7%

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: Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%

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 29% ★, Immersive 18.1% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Realistic 8.5%, Building 8.1%

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 33.5% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Building 9.8%

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 36.3% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Third Person 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%

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 32.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

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 32.1% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 7.5%

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 30.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.5%, Survival 8.3%

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 33.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.4%

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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Medieval 11.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 33.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Medieval 11%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.3%

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 33.2% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%

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 37.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.5%

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 47.7% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Co-op 8.4%, Open World 7.1%

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 35% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Realistic 13.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 11.8%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Medieval 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8.7%

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 39.9% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.3%, Realistic 8.2%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Building 11.4%

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 30.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.1%

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 34.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 7.4%

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 43.3% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%

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: Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 20%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 10.7%