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 18.1%, Open World 17.4%, Survival 15.6%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the same loop of exploring a hostile fantasy world, gathering resources, building an impressive base, and unlocking power through combat-driven progression.

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 15%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like V Rising, it pairs co-op survival and base-building with meaningful boss progression and a dangerous world that constantly pushes you outward.

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 15.2%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another survival-crafting game where co-op exploration, building, and action combat drive steady character and base progression.

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 18.3%, Survival 15%, Open World 14.2%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly addictive blend of online survival, supernatural atmosphere, base-building, and gearing up to take on tougher world threats.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival structure, deep base-building, clan progression, and combat-heavy sandbox feel strongly echo V Rising’s long-term progression loop.

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 16.7%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a strong combination of survival systems, base-building, multiplayer exploration, and dangerous creature-filled action in an open world.

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 13.7%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down perspective, boss-focused progression, crafting, and multiplayer base-building make it especially appealing for players who love V Rising’s structure.

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 22.6%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although lighter in tone, it captures the same satisfying mix of co-op survival, elaborate base-building, exploration, and escalating boss encounters.

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 14.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival sandbox similarly mixes combat, crafting, base development, and long-term world progression in a very moreish loop.

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 18.6%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival, automated base-building, multiplayer progression, and constant hunt for stronger upgrades give it a comparable sandbox pull.

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 21.9%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%, PvE 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends action-RPG combat with co-op survival, crafting, and base defense in a way that feels close to V Rising’s combat-forward survival design.

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 17.1%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy gathering, crafting, building defensible bases, and surviving harsh PvE challenges with friends, ICARUS scratches a lot of the same itch.

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 22.2%, Open World 20.4%, Crafting 16.2%, Online Co-Op 14%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-world crafting, settlement building, and progression through combat and expansion, appealing to players who like growing power from a vulnerable start.

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 17.5%, Open World 16%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival sandbox, base-building, open-world danger, and persistent progression make it a strong alternative if you want a bigger-scale survival world.

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 19.7%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on co-op survival, crafting, and building a stronghold while pushing deeper into a hostile fantasy environment full of progression goals.

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 11.2%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy survival game mixes exploration, combat, and base-building in a way that feels spiritually close to V Rising’s progression rhythm.

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 15%, Survival 14%, Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit for players who want survival crafting, large bases, PvP/PvE systems, and a persistent online world with lots of progression.

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 17.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down action combat, survival-crafting, dungeon runs, and home-building make it a very natural recommendation for V Rising fans.

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 22.8%, Crafting 19%, Survival 18.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends action combat, open-world exploration, crafting, automation, and base-building into a flexible multiplayer sandbox that shares V Rising’s broad appeal.

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

Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Despite being 2D, its mix of building, crafting, boss progression, gear advancement, and co-op exploration overlaps with V Rising surprisingly well.

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: Base Building 19.9%, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying co-op survival loop centered on scavenging, building fortified bases, and defending yourself from constant external threats.

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 22.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 16.1%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is heavier on survival and defense, but the crafting, base-building, multiplayer, and constant pressure create a similarly compelling long-form sandbox.

'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 13.5%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its crafting, open-world scavenging, fortification building, and combat against recurring threats fit well if you enjoy preparing a stronghold against danger.

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 14.5%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, settlement building, and long-term progression through expansion and resource management make it a good fit for builder-focused V Rising fans.

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 35.2%, Survival 24.6%, Online Co-Op 17%, Co-op 9.4%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more RPG than builder, but its co-op open-world adventuring, harsh survival elements, and deliberate progression will appeal to V Rising players.

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 24.9%, Survival 23.7%, Open World 21.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the appeal of building up a home base, scavenging a hostile world, and steadily improving your chances of survival with friends.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is less combat-driven, but its open-world crafting, building, co-op play, and steady settlement growth align with V Rising’s progression-heavy survival side.

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 32.1%, Open World 22.2%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: While slower and more simulation-heavy, it offers one of the best multiplayer survival-and-base-building sandboxes on Steam.

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: Vampires 42.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.2%

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 14.1%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9%

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Why similar: Crafting 20.1%, Survival 19.9%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 13%

Why You'll Like It: This lighter action-RPG sandbox still captures a fun mix of combat, crafting, building, and co-op progression.

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!

Why similar: Survival 14.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 9.9%

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 16.7%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%

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: Survival 22.1%, Open World 18.8%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%

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 14.2%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 13%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Building 9.1%

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 29.4%, Massively Multiplayer 22.4%, PvP 9.9%, Crafting 9.7%, PvE 9%

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: Vampires 87.8% ★, Open World 7.3%, Dark Fantasy 2.5%, Action-Adventure 0.8%, Action 0.7%

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 15.4%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.9%

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 19.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 10%

In the face of certain death, we rise. Team up and embark on a journey to the ends of hell to unlock your past and escape your living nightmare in CODE VEIN.

Why similar: Vampires 79.3% ★, Co-op 4.4%, Online Co-Op 4.3%, Hack and Slash 3.6%, Multiplayer 3.5%

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 22.7%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%

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 18.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.6%, Building 13.3%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.8%

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 19.9%, Open World 17.5%, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 7.9%

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 32.1%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Crafting 13.2%

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 17.2%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%

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 19.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%

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 69%, Building 22.2%, Adventure 3.2%, Action 3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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 16.7%, Open World 16.1%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 9.7%

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: Vampires 51.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.6%

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: Survival 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

(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 17.5%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 13%, Building 11.5%

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: Vampires 94.1% ★, Dark Fantasy 3.9%, Action 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%

The town of Redfall is under siege by a legion of vampires who have cut the island off from the outside world. Trapped with a handful of survivors, slay alone or squad up in open-world FPS action.

Why similar: Vampires 62.2% ★, Open World 15.2%, Multiplayer 7%, Co-op 6.3%, Action-Adventure 3.8%

An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.

Why similar: Multiplayer 23.3%, Survival 21.1%, Online Co-Op 21%, PvP 17.8%, PvE 12.9%

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 18.7%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

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 17.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

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 20.8%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 15.1%, PvP 12.1%, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%

Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.

Why similar: Crafting 34.6%, Base Building 30.1%, Exploration 9.5%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Co-op 7.9%