Games Like V Rising

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 17.9%, Open World 17.2%, Survival 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfying mix of exploration, base-building, co-op survival, and progression through dangerous regions and major encounters.

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: Survival 21.9%, Open World 18.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark-fantasy open world, heavy focus on building fortified strongholds, and PvE/PvP survival loop make it one of the closest overall matches to V Rising.

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: Survival 14.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 13.7%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like V Rising, it revolves around gathering, crafting, building an impressive home base, and beating bosses to unlock the next tier of progression.

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: Base Building 15.1%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 13.7%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 12%

Why You'll Like It: This is another survival-crafting game with co-op, elaborate building, gear progression, and a fantasy-action focus rather than pure hardcore simulation.

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: Base Building 19.6%, Open World 16.3%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world survival, substantial base-building, multiplayer, and a strong progression loop built around combat, crafting, and conquering a hostile world.

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: Base Building 18.2%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 14.1%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its supernatural setting, shared-world survival structure, base construction, and blend of PvE and PvP give it a similar live-in-the-world feel.

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: Base Building 15.9%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: The top-down perspective, boss-hunting progression, crafting loop, and home-base focus line up very well with V Rising's structure.

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: Base Building 14%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes survival in a dangerous open world, building and defending bases, and navigating both environmental threats and other players.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Survival 17.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 15%, Building 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its action-heavy combat, dungeon runs, crafting, farming, and co-op base-building make it feel especially close to V Rising's adventure-survival balance.

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: Base Building 16.6%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong co-op survival-crafting pick with open-world exploration, vertical base-building, and a constant sense of danger and progression.

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Survival 16.1%, Multiplayer 11.9%, PvE 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down action combat, cooperative crafting and building, and defending your settlement from escalating threats echo V Rising's faster-paced survival side.

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: Survival 22.5%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 12.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival loop of building a secure base, upgrading through exploration, and dealing with environmental threats scratches a very similar itch.

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: Base Building 17.3%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you like the territorial multiplayer survival side of V Rising, this offers large-scale base-building, resource warfare, and persistent-world progression.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World 18.4%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Despite a lighter tone, it blends open-world survival, base automation, crafting, and multiplayer progression in a way that overlaps nicely with V Rising's loop.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World 15.3%, Survival 14%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down perspective, action-RPG combat, crafting, and settlement-building make it a natural fit if you want a more sandbox-heavy alternative.

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: Base Building 17.2%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into survival systems, but the co-op crafting, base-building, and progression through dangerous expeditions will appeal to V Rising players.

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Why similar: Open World 16.5%, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines fantasy survival, cooperative building, exploration, and combat progression in a way that fits well for players who enjoy V Rising's structure.

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another co-op survival-crafting game centered on building up a stronghold and pushing deeper into a dangerous world for better materials and upgrades.

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 17.3%, Open World 15.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same addictive cycle of gathering resources, building defended bases, taming a hostile world, and thriving on multiplayer servers.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 17.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its tense open-world survival, co-op base-building, and constant resource pressure make it a good fit if you enjoy the more hostile survival aspects of V Rising.

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 22%, Open World 20.4%, Crafting 16.5%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of open-world crafting, combat, and developing a defended settlement makes it a solid pick for players who love building up a domain.

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Base Building 14.7%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy survival game mixes combat abilities, exploration, and base-building in a way that feels closer to V Rising than many pure survival sims.

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on village management, but the co-op survival, building, and progression through a harsh world still align well with V Rising's broader appeal.

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: Survival 22.8%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 15.9%, Online Co-Op 12%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the persistent-world survival and fortification appeal, with a strong emphasis on crafting, base defense, and multiplayer cooperation.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: While 2D, it nails the same feeling of building up a base, farming resources, unlocking crafting tiers, and defeating bosses for progression.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 16.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: The original ARK still offers a huge amount of open-world survival, base-building, taming, and server-based PvE/PvP progression.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 15%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Online Co-Op 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its crafting and base-management loop under constant threat delivers a strong survival-building rhythm for players who enjoy maintaining and upgrading a home base.

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

Why You'll Like It: It is a more shooter-leaning survival game, but the open-world building, crafting, co-op/PvP support, and base-defense focus overlap with V Rising's multiplayer survival side.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Survival 59.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 6.8%, Online Co-Op 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers challenging co-op survival, meaningful base-building, and dangerous boss encounters, even if its style is harsher and more sandbox-driven.

In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.

Why similar: Vampire 28% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%

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: Survival 32%, Open World 22.1%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a slower and more simulation-heavy take, but its isometric survival, multiplayer servers, crafting, and base fortification are still highly relevant.

Bloodhunt is a thrilling free-to-play battle royale game set in Prague consumed by a ruthless war between vampire factions. Use your supernatural powers, weapons, and wit to hunt your rivals and dominate the night!

Why similar: Vampire 53.2% ★, Survival 18%, Multiplayer 15%, PvP 12%, Action 1.8%

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: Base Building 15.9%, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 8.9%

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 18.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.6%, Building 13.3%

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

Why similar: Vampire 83.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 7.3%, Multiplayer 5%, Action 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: Open World 29.1%, Massively Multiplayer 22.4%, PvP 10%, Crafting 9.7%, PvE 9.3%

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 10.5%

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: Base Building 16.5%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 10.9%

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: Survival 19.8%, Open World 17.3%, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Crafting 12%, Building 8%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Survival 16.5%, Open World 16%, Online Co-Op 15%, Crafting 13.1%, Multiplayer 9.7%

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 20.5%, Open World 19.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%

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: Base Building 12.2%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

Why similar: Open World 17%, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%

'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: Base Building 16.8%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 12.1%

(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: Survival 17.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 12.9%, Building 11.6%

Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.

Why similar: Hack and Slash 32.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.5%, Online Co-Op 16%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Crafting 13.3%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%

London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.

Why similar: Vampire 67.9% ★, Open World 19.1%, Dark Fantasy 6.7%, Action-Adventure 2.2%, Action 1.9%

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Base Building 68.6%, Building 22.5%, Adventure 3.2%, Action 3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

Why similar: Open World 23.5%, Survival 22.2%, Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 8.2%

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Survival 16.3%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 16%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Open World 12%

Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!

Why similar: Base Building 18%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World 22.6%, Crafting 19.1%, Survival 18.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Building 7.3%

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: Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.4%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 10.5%

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: Survival 20.2%, Open World 16.6%, Base Building 13.9%, PvP 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Crafting 42%, Multiplayer 40.9%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

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: Base Building 18.6%, Survival 16.5%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 10%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Open World 14.9%, Survival 14.8%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 9.5%

Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?

Why similar: Open World 20.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 15.1%, PvP 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%