- #1 Deadside
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,400 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 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 23.7% ★, Survival 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hardcore PvP survival with a realistic approach to combat and gear management.
- #2 Rust
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,378,603 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 424.5 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 25.1% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive PvPvE survival experience featuring deep base-building and high-stakes resource gathering.
- #3 The Front
96% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.9 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 27.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a very similar blend of open-world survival, base-building, and tactical combat against both players and AI.
- #4 Once Human
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 177,968 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 51.2 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 27% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A modern survival game that combines supernatural exploration with extensive base-building and extraction-style looting.
- #5 SCUM
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 125,269 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep survival mechanics and intense PvPvE encounters in a massive, detailed open world.
- #6 DayZ
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 464,547 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 277.6 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 13.9%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential open-world survival game that emphasizes high-stakes looting and player interaction.
- #7 Subsistence
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.4 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 39.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Strong focus on base-building and survival against persistent AI threats in a challenging environment.
- #8 Vigor
92% matchMixed46% of 7,873 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 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 14.2%, Third-Person Shooter 12.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the extraction and looting loop, requiring players to survive and escape with their gear.
- #9 Lost Light
91% matchMixed55% of 27,982 reviews2022
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.8 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 21.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Shooter 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the extraction shooter loop and looting mechanics found in XERA.
- #10 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 402,373 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 109.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features excellent base-building and horde-defense mechanics that mirror the defensive challenges of XERA.
- #11 Miscreated
91% 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 41.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric post-apocalyptic survival game with a strong focus on scavenging and multiplayer tension.
- #12 Will To Live Online
90% matchMixed69% of 18,314 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 34.9 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 29% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: An MMO survival game that emphasizes post-apocalyptic exploration and tactical combat.
- #13 Marauders
88% matchMixed68% of 21,414 reviews2022
Dev: Small Impact Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 42.7% ★, FPS 15.6%, PvP 14.3%, Open World 13.9%, Shooter 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical extraction shooter that captures the gritty, industrial atmosphere and high-risk looting loop.
- #14 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
89% matchMixed47% of 107 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 25.4% ★, Looter Shooter 13.6% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features the robot-centric combat and crafting elements that define the unique setting of XERA.
- #15 Dysterra
87% matchMixed56% of 767 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 26% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that incorporates base-building and PvP elements in a futuristic setting.
- #16 DeadPoly
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,038 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 21.4% ★, Looter Shooter 10.2% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that focuses on looting, crafting, and base defense.
- #17 Nomad
86% 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 42.5% ★, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes scavenging and PvP combat in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #18 Hurtworld
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.8 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 30.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.1%, FPS 9%
Why You'll Like It: Fast-paced survival gameplay with a heavy emphasis on PvP and vehicle-based exploration.
- #19 Next Day: Survival
85% 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 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Open World 15.8%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Hardcore survival with RPG elements set in a post-Soviet environment that rewards careful scavenging.
- #20 Stay Out
84% matchMixed69% of 30,616 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 19.0 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 18.9%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.3%, PvP 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival MMO that focuses on exploration, looting, and surviving anomalies.
- #21 Unturned
82% matchVery Positive91% of 563,787 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Looter Shooter 16.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play survival game that captures the core base-building and looting loop in a accessible format.
- #22 Survive the Nights
81% matchMixed66% of 6,615 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.0 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 23.2% ★, Looter Shooter 14.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.3%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base fortification and surviving waves of enemies in a realistic survival environment.
- #23 Rem Survival
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 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 30.9% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on crafting and building in a hostile environment with a focus on resource management.
- #24 ARK: Survival Ascended
78% matchMixed60% of 110,562 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 26.3 hrsMean: 195.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 16%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense survival and base-building mechanics against dangerous creatures and other players.
- #25 Outpost Zero
81% matchMixed49% of 851 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 36.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building with tactical combat against AI in a sci-fi survival setting.
- #26 Out of Reach
80% matchMixed57% of 3,049 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 36.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes building and tactical combat in a unique open-world setting.
- #27 Taora : Beginning
77% matchVery Positive87% of 2,238 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 12.3%, Third-Person Shooter 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Sandbox 9%
- #28 Dead District: Survival
79% matchMixed47% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 12.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Third-Person Shooter 10%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Multiplayer survival that emphasizes base defense and looting in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #29 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
78% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 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 40.6% ★, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #30 Undawn
76% matchMixed54% of 6,593 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 40.9 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 11%, Crafting 10.6%
- #31 ICARUS
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,831 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #32 Outerstellar
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 172 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 23.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%
- #33 Outlaws of the Old West
75% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 41.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #34 HumanitZ
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,392 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 21.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #35 DUCKSIDE
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,057 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 19.2 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 25.1% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Third-Person Shooter 8.8%
- #36 Last Oasis
73% matchMixed62% of 24,228 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.1 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 20.9%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.1%
- #37 Infestation: The New Z
74% matchMixed54% of 33,897 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.5 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 17.2%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, FPS 8.3%
- #38 DARKEST DAYS
71% matchMixed49% of 5,018 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 15.8%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.3%
- #39 Mesorift Survival
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 127 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 9.3%, Looter Shooter 9.3% ★, Open World 8.4%
- #40 Ruins To Fortress
71% matchMixed64% of 177 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 30.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Looter Shooter 8.5% ★, Survival 8.4%
- #41 Night of the Dead
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,822 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.3 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 29.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.8%
- #42 Hired Ops
70% matchMixed68% of 16,108 reviews2021
Dev: Absolut Soft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 16.1 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 33.1%, Multiplayer 26%, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Shooter 14.2%, Action 5.2%
- #43 Fragmented
73% 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 44.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #44 GRAV
72% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 37.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #45 Taora : Survival
68% matchMixed60% of 416 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 22.7% ★, Looter Shooter 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #46 Lost Rift
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,626 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9%
- #47 Project Asteroids
68% matchMixed57% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
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 14.4%, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 9.9%
- #48 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive83% of 869 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive in a post-apocalyptic open-world sandbox alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by heat and chaos. Build a base, develop skills, craft tools and weapons, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, earn faction reputation, or take part in faction wars.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.8%
- #49 Muck
65% matchVery Positive93% of 183,785 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Crafting 19%, Base Building 17.1%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Building 12.6%
- #50 BEACHED
68% matchMixed65% of 3,691 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 32.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 8.8%, Third-Person Shooter 8.8%
- #51 Wild Terra Online
69% matchMixed60% of 1,842 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22.3%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 11.1%
- #52 No One Survived
63% matchMixed64% of 7,705 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.6 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 22%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Multiplayer 12.3%
