Games Like Times of Survival

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 23% ★, Zombies 17.9%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 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 27.2% ★, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Zombies 8.7%, Open World 8.7%

Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Zombies 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.4%

Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.1% ★, Zombies 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Co-op 8.3%

Survive in a procedurally generated PvPvE world with friends in first-person. Complete quests, craft weapons, build bases, and wreak havoc on enemies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Zombies 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Crafting 7.8%

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Zombies 20.2%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 7.4%, Base Building 7.4%

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 26.8% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.6%

Hordebreak is an open world survival crafting game with big guns and hordes of thousands of monsters. Play alone or with friends, explore the fallen world, build fortified fortresses, craft & upgrade badass gear, and fulfil your reconquest of this fallen world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.9%, Top-Down Shooter 7.9%

MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 7.4%

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Zombies 15.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 10.5%

In a brutal open world, standing still means death. Explore together in a co-op survival FPS where crafting, building, and fighting with friends is the only way forward.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.8%, Zombies 7.4%

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 13.2%, Zombies 13%, Survival 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Open World 10%

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Zombies 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%

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 25.5% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Zombies 11.6%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 9%

Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Zombies 15.5%, Survival 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 9.3%

The aliens have caused the oceans to rise, plunging the world into the abyss. Survive, craft, and explore this mysterious underwater world. Build your base, defend it against relentless waves of enemies, and dive deep to uncover the secret that could stop the alien invasion once and for all!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 8.6%

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 39.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Zombies 22.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Open World 12%

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 17.3% ★, Zombies 15.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

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 38.3% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 9%, Open World 9%

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 37.8% ★, Zombies 13.8%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 15%, Co-op 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Base Building 8.5%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8.8%

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 30.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 7.4%

Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.8%, Open World 9.6%

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Zombies 17.6%, Building 10.9%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%

Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.5%, Open World 9.3%

Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Zombies 10%, Survival 9.4%

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 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.7%

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 23.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%

Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.4%

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 30.4% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%

You are one of the chosen survivors to set up your life in UNKNOWN REGION. Life has forever changed after an unknown virus has wiped out humanity. Navigate through the region to discover mutated humans and creatures. You will be challenged to test your survival skills.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Zombies 8.4%

Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.4%

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 31.2% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 9.5%, Building 9%

Good Heavens! Is an open-world crafting and building RPG. Embark on a solo adventure or team up with up friends, picking your tool of choice – sword, wand, or carpenter's hammer. Navigate the quirky races and cultures of the promised lands and restore them to their, ahem, intended glory.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.5%, Co-op 8.9%

Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Zombies 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Survival 8.8%, Co-op 7.7%

Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Building 9.1%

Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.4%, Open World 10.2%

New Spring is a open world zombie survival RPG where you spend the daytime exploring and scavenging for tools and weapons, and defend your base when night falls. How long can you stave off the hordes?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Open World 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.7%

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 23.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Co-op 9.2%

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: Zombies 16.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Open World 11.5%

Survive then thrive in a zombie-infested world. Gather materials, craft diverse weapons and tools, build and fortify a shelter, explore a massive world filled with the secrets of a dead civilization and whatever you do: stay clear of the…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Zombies 12.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Zombies 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 8.4%

Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.3%, Co-op 9.9%

Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.7%

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 37.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%

The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Survival 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 9.4%

VECTOR ZONE is a gripping survival game where the weight of leadership rests on your shoulders. Set in a post-apocalyptic world teeming with dangers, your task is to manage a camp of diverse NPC survivors and lead them to safety while constructing vital structures for their survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Zombies 12%, Survival 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%

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 23% ★, Zombies 14.3%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

The Rotting Chronicles is a survival action game set in a zombie-ravaged city where you must fight, scavenge, craft, and rebuild to survive. Run solo or with up to 3 friends as you grow your survival skills and find the best strategy to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Zombies 16%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%

The Blight aims to evolve the open world survival with unprecedented levels of horror, strategy, and prediction, where knowledge and skills become the ultimate weapons for long-term survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Zombies 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival 8.5%

Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

Why similar: Zombies 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.5%

Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%

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 30.1% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9%, Building 8.4%

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 41.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Zombies 23.4%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 8.4%