- #1 Deadside
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Survival 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the extraction-shooter and survival loop, emphasizing tactical combat in a large, unforgiving open world.
- #2 Rust
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival game that perfectly captures the high-stakes base building and aggressive PvP scavenging found in XERA.
- #3 Once Human
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A modern survival experience that combines supernatural PvE threats with base building and multiplayer exploration in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #4 SCUM
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep, complex survival mechanics and tactical PvP combat that will appeal to players who enjoy the realistic grit of XERA.
- #5 Lost Light
95% matchMixed56% of 27,603 reviews2022
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 21.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Shooter 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated extraction shooter that mirrors the loot-and-stash gameplay loop central to the XERA experience.
- #6 Miscreated
94% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 41% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that emphasizes exploration and player interaction in a dangerous, mutated world.
- #7 DayZ
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 17.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the most intense, hardcore survival experience where every encounter with players or the environment is a high-stakes risk.
- #8 Will To Live Online
92% matchMixed69% of 18,150 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: An MMORPG survival game that captures the post-apocalyptic atmosphere and the necessity of scavenging for survival.
- #9 Subsistence
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 38.9% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features robust base-building mechanics and PvE survival elements that challenge players to defend their territory against AI threats.
- #10 Hurtworld
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.1%, FPS 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced survival game that prioritizes PvP combat and resource gathering in a harsh, stylized environment.
- #11 Vigor
90% matchMixed46% of 7,596 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 24.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Third-Person Shooter 12.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter focused on the tension of entering a map, gathering resources, and successfully extracting before being killed by other players.
- #12 Dysterra
89% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that blends base building with intense combat against both players and environmental hazards.
- #13 DeadPoly
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Looter Shooter 10.3% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that focuses on the core loop of looting, shooting, and building in a multiplayer world.
- #14 Survive the Nights
86% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Looter Shooter 14.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.2%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the importance of base fortification and surviving the night against waves of threats, similar to defending against XOIDS.
- #15 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
88% matchMixed48% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Looter Shooter 13.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the robot-themed survival combat found in XERA, allowing players to build and fight alongside mechanical entities.
- #16 Next Day: Survival
87% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Open World 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that offers both PvE and PvP elements in a harsh, realistic open world.
- #17 Rem Survival
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated survival game that emphasizes base building and resource gathering in a challenging, open-world environment.
- #18 Out of Reach
84% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with base building and naval combat, appealing to players who enjoy the construction aspects of XERA.
- #19 Nomad
84% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 42.1% ★, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 11%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on the basics of crafting and scavenging in a multiplayer-driven open world.
- #20 Outlaws of the Old West
83% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive open-world survival experience with a heavy focus on building and crafting in a hostile frontier.
- #21 Taora : Beginning
80% matchVery Positive87% of 2,228 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Third-Person Shooter 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter that provides a sandbox experience for players who enjoy the gear-focused progression of XERA.
- #22 Undawn
81% matchMixed54% of 6,521 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 39.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game that integrates base building and co-op combat in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #23 Gray Zone Warfare
79% matchMixed70% of 66,430 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Open World 14.9%, FPS 14.2%, Survival 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical extraction-based shooter that emphasizes realism and high-stakes combat in a persistent, dangerous environment.
- #24 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
79% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 40.2% ★, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival experience that emphasizes the struggle for resources in a ruined, multiplayer world.
- #25 Stay Out
78% matchMixed68% of 29,668 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Stay Out - is a MMORPG with shooter elements, based on spirit of “stalking” - an urban exploration, searching and exploring mysterious, abandoned and forgotten by humanity pieces of our planet.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 12.1%, PvP 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that captures the feeling of exploring a dangerous, mysterious zone filled with threats.
- #26 The Front
75% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
- #27 Dead District: Survival
78% matchMixed49% of 465 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Third-Person Shooter 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that focuses on the core mechanics of shooting and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #28 Outerstellar
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%
- #29 HumanitZ
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.6% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #30 Infestation: The New Z
77% matchMixed54% of 33,896 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.
Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Open World 17.1%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, FPS 8.3%
- #31 Mesorift Survival
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Looter Shooter 9.3% ★, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.3%
- #32 Ruins To Fortress
73% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.2%, Looter Shooter 8.5% ★, Survival 8.5%
- #33 Night of the Dead
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.7%
- #34 Plains of Pain
72% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #35 Outpost Zero
75% matchMixed49% of 846 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 8.4%
- #36 Fragmented
76% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #37 DUCKSIDE
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,985 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Third-Person Shooter 8.8%
- #38 GRAV
74% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #39 Taora : Survival
70% matchMixed63% of 395 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Looter Shooter 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #40 Lost Rift
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9%
- #41 Hired Ops
71% matchMixed67% of 16,025 reviews2021
Dev: Absolut Soft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Hired Ops is a session-based online shooter dedicated to fierce conflicts between rival mercenary groups battling on a global scale.
Why similar: FPS 33%, Multiplayer 26.5%, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Shooter 14%, Action 5.1%
- #42 DARKEST DAYS
69% matchMixed49% of 4,678 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Post-apocalyptic 16%, Base Building 15%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.2%
- #43 Project Asteroids
70% matchMixed56% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 14.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12%, Open World 9.8%
- #44 No One Survived
66% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Open World 16%, Crafting 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Multiplayer 12.3%
- #45 BEACHED
69% matchMixed65% of 3,675 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Survival 10.1%, Third-Person Shooter 8.9%, Open World 8.8%
- #46 Last Oasis
69% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Massively Multiplayer 20.8%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.1%
- #47 Grim
66% matchMixed59% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed InteractivePub: Beyond Frames
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Looter Shooter 10.1% ★, Survival 9.8%
- #48 Generation Zero®
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,588 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 14.7%, Robots 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.6%
- #49 Volcanoids
67% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.4%
- #50 SmallZ
68% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 17.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Building 8.6%
- #51 Zombie Survival Game Online
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
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% ★, Looter Shooter 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
