- #1 Project Zomboid
97% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.2%, Survival 19.3%, Open World Survival Craft 14.2% ★, Open World 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive isometric zombie survival game that offers the most depth in scavenging, crafting, and base management.
- #2 Dread Dawn
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,259 reviews2024
Dev: Kioop
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 38.1%, Survival 20%, Open World 13.4%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie survival game that mirrors Zelter's focus on exploration and sandbox survival in a city setting.
- #3 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
96% matchVery Positive94% of 4,475 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 26.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based pixel-art survival game that emphasizes the same scavenging and resource management found in Zelter.
- #4 DYSMANTLE
95% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 32.9%, Survival 24.6%, Open World 18.8%, Sandbox 6.9%, Exploration 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down perspective with a heavy focus on breaking down the environment to craft better gear and survive.
- #5 Unturned
94% matchVery Positive91% of 564,532 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Why similar: Zombies 27.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 13.1%, FPS 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a low-poly aesthetic and deep survival mechanics that capture the same accessible yet punishing zombie-survival loop.
- #6 HumanitZ
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,984 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 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: Zombies 24.1%, Survival 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Open World Survival Craft 11.4% ★, Open World 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A modern top-down zombie survival game that focuses on crafting, base building, and scavenging in an open world.
- #7 Tinkerlands
93% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.6% ★, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Open World 12.8%, Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a vibrant, dangerous world.
- #8 Necesse
92% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 13%, Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down pixel-art survival game that excels in base building, crafting, and managing threats in a procedurally generated world.
- #9 7 Days to Die
91% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 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: Voxel 18.3% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Survival 11.4%, Open World Survival Craft 9.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential voxel-based zombie survival game that shares the core building and defense mechanics found in Zelter.
- #10 Core Keeper
90% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Survival 15.8%, Building 13.6%, Open World 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on mining, its top-down pixel-art style and survival-crafting loop feel very similar to the core gameplay of Zelter.
- #11 ZED ZONE
91% matchVery Positive81% of 3,661 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 25.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 15.6%, Building 12.1%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie survival game that focuses on realistic mechanics, scavenging, and surviving in a ruined city.
- #12 DeadPoly
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,136 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.3 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: Zombies 22.8%, Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Survival 13.8%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly zombie survival game that focuses on looting, building, and surviving in a hostile environment.
- #13 No One Survived
88% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 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: Zombies 23.5%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Survival Horror 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with deep crafting and base-building mechanics that cater to fans of the genre.
- #14 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
87% matchVery Positive87% of 4,502 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 18.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on base building, community management, and defending against zombie-like threats.
- #15 Crafting Dead
89% matchMixed57% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
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 28.9% ★, Zombies 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused zombie survival game that features a blocky aesthetic and intense scavenging gameplay.
- #16 Welcome to ParadiZe
86% matchMixed67% of 1,314 reviews2024
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 15.1%, Open World Survival Craft 12.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie survival game that introduces unique mechanics like zombie taming and base defense.
- #17 Human Host
84% matchVery Positive83% of 708 reviews2026
Dev: Virtual Matrix Studio
Windows
Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Voxel 28.1% ★, Zombies 18.8%, Survival 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival game that focuses on building and crafting to defend against zombie threats.
- #18 Junk Survivor
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
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 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that focuses on scavenging for parts in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #19 Sheltered
85% matchVery Positive82% of 6,278 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 37%, Post-apocalyptic 33.7%, Building 11%, Open World 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival management game that shares a distinct visual style and a focus on keeping your survivors alive.
- #20 iZolated
84% matchMixed70% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
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 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Open World 10%, Survival 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on exploration and character progression.
- #21 Craft The World
83% matchVery Positive88% of 17,055 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32.4%, Survival 24.7%, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 16.7%, Simulation 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that focuses on managing a group of dwarves to build a base and survive against waves of enemies.
- #22 The Survivalists
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 19.5%, Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Open World 11.4%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival and crafting game that focuses on exploration and resource management in a dangerous environment.
- #23 Don't Starve
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,372 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 40.4%, Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 9.1%, Exploration 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A highly stylized survival game that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and managing resources to survive against supernatural threats.
- #24 Zombie City Together
80% matchMixed69% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: cnsgames
Windows
Take on a city overrun by zombies with 1 to 4 players online — co-op or PvP! Hold the line against running, leaping, spitting hordes. Fight by day, hunt in the dark of night. Tear off limbs and unlock cosmetics with every kill. Stand together... or hunt each other down.
Why similar: Zombies 33.2%, Survival 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, FPS 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op zombie survival game that focuses on action and exploration in a city environment.
- #25 LifeZ - Survival
82% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 27.7%, Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Survival 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting, building, and fighting off zombie hordes.
- #26 RimWorld
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 31%, Building 17.2%, Open World 14.8%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Sandbox 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony management game that features intense survival, crafting, and defense against zombie-like raids.
- #27 Invasion 2037
81% matchMixed61% of 159 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
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 28.5%, Survival 21.5%, Open World 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Simulation 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An indie survival game that focuses on exploration and resource gathering in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #28 Voxile
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
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 34.7% ★, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.7%, Open World 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that focuses on destruction, combat, and building in a hostile environment.
- #29 ZIC: Survival
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
ZIC: Survival is a survival shooter where you feel The Zombie Apocalypse & become The Undead Hunter!
Why similar: Zombies 18.2%, Open World Survival Craft 13.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival horror game that focuses on sandbox exploration and scavenging in a zombie-infested city.
- #30 Dig For Your Lives
76% matchVery Positive82% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Cool Birb Studio
Windows
Dig for resources, upgrade your gear and defend your gate against relentless zombie hordes as you uncover the mystery hidden beneath the world. Play solo or with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Voxel 37.8% ★, Zombies 16.7%, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, FPS 6.3%
- #31 BiteVille
79% matchMixed54% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Veelhoek Studios
Windows
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 24.8%, Building 13.4%, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A casual zombie survival game that focuses on action and co-op gameplay in a stylized world.
- #32 Zombie Survival Game Online
77% matchMixed69% of 316 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: Zombies 21.2%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 12.6%, Building 10%
- #33 The Last Disease Z
75% matchMixed56% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Bublig
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Last Disease Z is a co-op survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.
Why similar: Zombies 23%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 10.6%
- #34 Romestead
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Survival 17.6%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
- #35 ZIC – Zombies in City
76% matchVery Positive90% of 188 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
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 30.6% ★, Zombies 24%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, FPS 8.9%
- #36 CastleMiner Z
75% matchVery Positive81% of 11,158 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 25.8%, Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #37 Blood Night
72% matchVery Positive95% of 110 reviews2026
Dev: Team
Windows
(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 28.6%, Survival 16.3%, Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Open World 9.7%
- #38 DREADZONE
73% matchMixed51% of 1,210 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
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 24.8%, Survival 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Open World 14.9%, Building 14.3%
- #39 SurrounDead
72% matchVery Positive91% of 26,489 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 32.6%, Survival 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Open World 14.1%, Open World Survival Craft 10.2% ★
- #40 Night of the Dead
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 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: Zombies 21.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #41 Outbreak Island
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,082 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Building 11.3%, Open World 9.7%
- #42 Polygeddon
71% matchMixed41% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
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 26.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.6%, Building 7.7%
- #43 Nearly Dead
73% matchMixed46% of 301 reviews2021
Dev: Mono Software, Inc.
Windows
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 42.1%, Survival 18.2%, RPG 12.2%, Survival Horror 8.4%, Action 8.2%
- #44 VEIN
67% matchVery Positive88% of 12,003 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 25.1%, Survival 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Open World 13.6%, Survival Horror 7.5%
- #45 State of Decay
70% matchVery Positive85% of 17,512 reviews2013
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 38%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Sandbox 3.6%
- #46 Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha
68% matchVery Positive88% of 10,634 reviews2023
Dev: Adrian Kaminski
Windows
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 23.4%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Open World 8.3%
- #47 Soviet Survival
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Open World 12.3%, Survival Horror 10.5%
- #48 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
70% matchMixed60% of 348 reviews2024
Dev: Bazura GamesPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 29.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Survival 14.3%, Exploration 6.8%
- #49 Zompiercer
69% matchVery Positive88% of 4,697 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 12.6%, FPS 10.3%
- #50 Winter Survivor Protocol
67% matchMixed69% of 189 reviews2026
Dev: RECAST
Windows
Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!
Why similar: Zombies 34.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.8%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 7.3%
- #51 Deadly Flare
69% matchMixed55% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: Green Grass Games
Windows
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
Why similar: Zombies 18.4%, Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Building 13%, Open World 9.9%
- #52 Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
66% matchVery Positive89% of 9,529 reviews2025
Dev: PikPokPub: Boltray Games (China)
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.
Why similar: Zombies 43.1%, Post-apocalyptic 31.1%, Survival Horror 21.8%, Action 3.9%
- #53 Stay Alive: Apocalypse
71% matchMixed50% of 164 reviews2018
Dev: Mehan Games
Windows
You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.
Why similar: Zombies 31.1%, Survival 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Open World 11.2%, Simulation 7.9%
- #54 Zombie Craft
69% matchMostly Negative34% of 56 reviews2021
Dev: Crafty GamesPub: Zombie Craft
Windows · Mac
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% ★, Zombies 29.6%, Survival Horror 16%, Exploration 7.7%, Building 2.4%
- #55 Vorax
67% matchMixed61% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
Why similar: Zombies 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 13.6%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Open World 11.3%
- #56 ZERO Sievert
63% matchVery Positive85% of 15,372 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Now with over 600,000 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 27%, Survival 25.6%, Open World 14.5%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Exploration 6.2%
- #57 Walking Zombie: Shooter
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 507 reviews2018
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Walking Zombie is a stationary FPS with an online co-op mode in a world full of zombies to kill. Buy and upgrade your weapons, kill all enemies in 200 levels and destroy mighty boss monsters before they eat you alive!
Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Voxel 24.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, FPS 8.6%
