Games Like VEIN

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: Zombies 23%, Survival 20.4%, Open World 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive isometric zombie survival experience that shares the deep scavenging and base-management DNA found in VEIN.

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: Zombies 18.8%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most robust combination of voxel-based base building and zombie horde defense currently available on Steam.

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: Zombies 21%, Survival 17.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Open World 15.7%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community management and base fortification, mirroring the 'rebuild society' aspect of VEIN.

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: Zombies 18.4%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down perspective and focuses heavily on looting, crafting, and surviving in a zombie-infested world.

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: Zombies 18.4%, Survival 17.8%, Open World 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that leans heavily into crafting, base building, and managing resources during a zombie apocalypse.

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. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Zombies 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival game that emphasizes the brutal reality of scavenging and player interaction in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 27.1%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world zombie survival game that emphasizes exploration and loot-heavy gameplay in a post-apocalyptic setting.

'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: Zombies 18.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival with tower defense mechanics, perfect for players who enjoy fortifying their base against zombie waves.

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: Zombies 22.6%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 20.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly detailed survival simulation with complex metabolism and crafting systems that appeal to fans of realistic survival.

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: Open World 20.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, its deep building system and survival exploration mechanics are highly relevant to fans of base-building games.

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: Survival 20.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers intense survival and base-building mechanics in a hostile environment that requires careful planning and resource gathering.

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: Survival 25.4%, Open World 17.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.6%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that focuses on base building and resource management against both AI and environmental threats.

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: Survival 22.9%, Zombies 20.6%, Open World 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that captures the atmosphere of a desolate, zombie-filled world through exploration and scavenging.

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: Survival 24.1%, Zombies 24%, Open World 17.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on environmental hazards and zombie threats in a sandbox world, requiring players to build secure shelters to survive.

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: Survival 18.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Co-op 14.6%, Open World 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique survival experience focused on base building and exploration in a post-apocalyptic water-world.

DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

Why similar: Zombies 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Base Building 16%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that prioritizes multiplayer looting and crafting in a world overrun by zombies.

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: Zombies 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 17.6%, Co-op 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic zombie survival game with a heavy emphasis on base fortification and surviving the night cycle.

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

Why similar: Survival 16.7%, Zombies 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Open World 11%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery-focused survival game that encourages sandbox exploration and scavenging in a dangerous environment.

「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 17.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Open World 12.4%, Co-op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, base building, and exploration with a dynamic day/night cycle that dictates the level of threat.

Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.

Why similar: Zombies 20.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features train-based survival with zombie combat and base elements, offering a unique twist on the genre.

MISERY is a 1–10 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: Survival 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 12.5%, Co-op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that emphasizes co-op play and horror elements in a desolate landscape.

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 14.1%, Zombies 14%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that focuses on co-op exploration and surviving against overwhelming odds.

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: Base Building 15%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on base building and post-apocalyptic exploration.

In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.

Why similar: Zombies 27.4%, Open World 19%, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale zombie survival game that emphasizes crafting and base defense against massive hordes.

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 17.4%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Crafting 11%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base building with automation elements for players who enjoy managing their resources efficiently.

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 28.6%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The original classic that established the community-focused zombie survival loop seen in many modern titles.

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: Survival 18.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Co-op 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep survival and exploration mechanics with a focus on building in a mysterious, hostile world.

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: Base Building 17.5%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Co-op 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and base building in a post-apocalyptic setting, emphasizing the need to adapt to the environment.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 25%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The remastered version of the classic survival experience, perfect for those who enjoy the base-building and management aspects.

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: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.1%, Co-op 11.2%, Crafting 10%

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Open World 18.6%, Co-op 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%

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: Base Building 17.5%, Open World 14.5%, Survival 14.1%, Zombies 13.9%, Crafting 10.4%

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 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Open World 17.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Co-op 8.6%

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 17.8%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 13.5%, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%

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 17.7%, Survival 17.5%, Co-op 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 18.3%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Co-op 10.1%

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 16.9%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 13.9%, Co-op 13.6%, Crafting 10.4%

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 13.1%, Base Building 9.9%

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight

Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Survival 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11.8%

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: Base Building 21%, Survival 19.4%, Open World 18.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Co-op 7.5%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Survival 21.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%

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: Base Building 22.2%, Open World 18.8%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 10.5%

After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%

(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: Zombies 22.5%, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%

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 18.5%, Open World 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Co-op 11.6%, Survival Horror 9.6%

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: Base Building 15.3%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.1%, Co-op 11%, Crafting 9.8%

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: Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.4%, Co-op 11.4%

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 27.7%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 20.7%, Open World 18.2%, Exploration 10.1%

Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!

Why similar: Zombies 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 11.7%

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: Survival 14.7%, Open World 14%, Base Building 12.4%, Zombies 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10%

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 26.8%, Open World 24.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Co-op 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.7%

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Zombies 18.4%, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Open World 13%, Co-op 10.3%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 21.7%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Base Building 11.4%

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

Why similar: Zombies 15.2%, Base Building 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.6%

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

Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Open World 12.8%, Survival Horror 10.8%

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 19.4%, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Open World 16.4%, Co-op 13.3%

Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.

Why similar: Zombies 18.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%

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 17.2%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 13.5%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%

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: Zombies 28.7%, Base Building 25.2%, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 16.4%, Exploration 7.4%