Games Like Zelter

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 25.9%, Survival 19.5%, Open World Survival Craft 14.1% ★, Open World 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive isometric zombie survival game that shares the deep crafting and base-building focus found in Zelter.

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 23.4%, Survival 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World Survival Craft 11.3% ★, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a modern isometric survival experience that captures the same tension of navigating a world overrun by zombies.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Survival 17%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a pixel-art aesthetic and turn-based survival mechanics that mirror the charm and difficulty of Zelter.

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 32.7%, Survival 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Open World 13.8%, Open World Survival Craft 9.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar top-down zombie survival experience with a heavy emphasis on looting and exploration.

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: Voxel 18.5% ★, Zombies 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, Open World Survival Craft 9.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for zombie base-building and survival, offering deep mechanics for those who enjoy the construction aspect of Zelter.

'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 20.7%, Open World Survival Craft 15.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on base-building and defending against zombie hordes, similar to the core loop of Zelter.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 32.4%, Survival 24.7%, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 7%, Exploration 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a post-apocalyptic world.

Now with over 500,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Survival 25.4%, Open World 14.3%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, pixel-art extraction shooter that emphasizes survival and resource management in a hostile environment.

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 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 18%, Open World 13%, FPS 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a voxel-inspired aesthetic to deliver a robust zombie survival and base-building experience.

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Zombies 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 15.6%, Building 12.2%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that captures the gritty, scavenging-focused nature of zombie apocalypse settings.

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 23%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Survival Horror 9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep crafting and base-building system for players who want to fortify their position against the undead.

Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.

Why similar: Zombies 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 15.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines zombie survival with unique mechanics like controlling zombies to help with base-building and combat.

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

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Open World 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the voxel-style aesthetic and crafting-heavy gameplay loop, though with a more tropical survival theme.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 36%, Post-apocalyptic 32.7%, Building 10.7%, Open World 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A resource management survival game that forces you to protect your family in a post-apocalyptic bunker.

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 19.3%, Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a mobile base to survive against waves of zombies, matching the base-defense elements of Zelter.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 48.7%, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Procedural Generation 7%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art game that focuses on managing survivors and fighting off zombies, capturing a similar visual and thematic vibe.

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Zombies 38.2%, Post-apocalyptic 30.5%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build a base in real-world locations, focusing on the strategic side of zombie survival.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Building 32.5%, Survival 24.7%, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 16.5%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based game that blends base-building and survival with a focus on managing a group of units.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Survival 18.2%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on combat and exploration, its voxel-based building and survival elements resonate with fans of Zelter.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 40.6%, Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 9%, Exploration 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique art style and a punishing survival loop that requires careful resource management.

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 32.2%, Survival 22.9%, Open World 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a community and managing resources in a zombie-infested open world.

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 38.3%, Survival 26.2%, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Open World 10.9%, RPG 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie survival game that emphasizes crafting and base fortification.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Building 17.2%, Open World 14.5%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Sandbox 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony management simulator that includes survival and base-building against various threats, including raids.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that focuses on building communities and managing relationships in a zombie world.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 52.6%, Survival 21.4%, Character Customization 13%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, RPG 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art road trip game that captures the frantic, humorous, and dangerous nature of a zombie apocalypse.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Zombies 54.9%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Survival 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%, Simulation 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled zombie survival game that emphasizes the struggle of keeping your group alive.

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Voxel 36% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Building 12.5%, Procedural Generation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that offers extensive building tools for those who enjoy the creative side of Zelter.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Voxel 24.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Building 14.6%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based game that leans heavily into the construction and defense aspects of survival.

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 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10.6%, Building 10.1%

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: Zombies 20.9%, Open World Survival Craft 15.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 12.7%, Building 10.1%

Pixel Survivors is a god management game. Create some land and build structures to keep your small society settled. See how long you can keep your village alive!

Why similar: Zombies 50.4%, Simulation 40.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward pixel-art survival game that focuses on the core loop of gathering and defending against zombies.

iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!

Why similar: Zombies 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

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: Voxel 29.2% ★, Zombies 20%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 8.7%

Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.

Why similar: Voxel 30.8% ★, Zombies 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, FPS 8.8%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Zombies 25.5%, Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 6.8%

Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive

Why similar: Zombies 28.1%, Survival 21.6%, Open World 12.4%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Simulation 7.8%

(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 28%, Survival 16.4%, Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Open World 9.6%

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: Zombies 24.4%, Survival 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Open World 14.9%, Building 14.4%

Explore a city thrust into disarray by an unknown event and survive the hordes of mutated abominations that lurk at every corner. You’ll have to fight through enemies & bosses, scavenge loot and survive the hostile city.

Why similar: Zombies 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Open World 11.2%

Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!

Why similar: Voxel 36% ★, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.2%, Building 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.5%

The world has fallen victim to a deadly virus, zombies now roam the lands. While running for your life you stumble upon a small city. Claim this city as your own, protect it with your life and maybe other survivors will find you.

Why similar: Zombies 24.4%, Building 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%

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 18.3%, Zombies 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Building 11.4%, Open World 9.6%

You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!

Why similar: Zombies 26%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 11.5%, Building 7.8%

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 22.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Survival 13.7%, Building 11.1%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 29%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Survival 14.3%, Exploration 6.9%

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: Zombies 23.9%, Survival 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Open World 13%, Survival Horror 8.2%

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Zombies 27.4%, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Survival 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 6%

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

Why similar: Zombies 25.8%, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Open World 12.2%, Survival Horror 10.5%

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 29.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 12.6%, FPS 10.5%

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 37.5%, Survival 20.4%, Open World 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Sandbox 3.7%

A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.

Why similar: Zombies 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Survival 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Open World 9.9%

Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.

Why similar: Zombies 23%, Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Online Co-Op 8.3%

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 38%, Survival 20.3%, Open World 13.5%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Open World 12.6%, Building 12.2%

Try your hand at exciting survival and prove that you are not afraid of any challenges! Defeat all the evil dead and free the virtual world from danger. You need to confront these monsters by any means. Be the bravest!

Why similar: Voxel 40.3% ★, Zombies 29.1%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Exploration 7.8%, Building 2.5%

Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Zombies 18.7%, Survival 15%, Open World 13.7%, Building 9%

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 41.5%, Survival 18.4%, RPG 12.3%, Survival Horror 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.3%