Games Like ZIC: Survival

Armed with only a small axe, explore a forest consumed by darkness. Gather resources, craft tools, and defend the sacred altar from nightly monster assaults. Restore the altar and bring life back to the land in this 2D survival action fantasy game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Farming Sim 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%

First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, City Builder 9.5%, Farming Sim 9.1%, Base Building 7.9%

Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Zombies 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Form a community, scavenge resources, build facilities, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 7%

AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 7.1%

Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.8%

Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Zombies 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%

Survive then thrive in a zombie-infested world. Gather materials, craft diverse weapons and tools, build and fortify a shelter, explore a massive world filled with the secrets of a dead civilization and whatever you do: stay clear of the…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Farming Sim 12.3%, Zombies 9.6%, Sandbox 9%, Base Building 8.6%

Survive a brutal corporate death game on an alien planet. Craft and assemble components into machines and automated production systems. Harness power, cultivate exotic plants, brew herbal tonics and synthesize chaotic drugs, all while managing your sanity in a detailed mental simulation.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Survival Horror 13.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.3%

Squad Zero is a squad-based open-world RPG with survival and strategy elements. The world has fallen to a zombie plague. Gather your squad, explore abandoned towns, scavenge resources, and build a base while the living and the dead fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 14.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Isometric 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%

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: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Zombies 16.6%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%

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 15.5% ★, Zombies 13%, Base Building 10.4%, Isometric 10.1%, Survival Horror 9.8%

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.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Zombies 14.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%

[GAME CANCELLED] Stranded in the darkness, survive and build a base scattered across the lunar surface to generate electricity and alight the moon as you upgrade your equipment, struggle for oxygen, and escape fearsome monsters. Singleplayer only, you will survive, gather, craft, build, and explore.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%

Gather resources, build structures, and craft increasingly wondrous items to unlock the secrets of a mysterious world made entirely out of clay.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 10.3%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Survival Horror 11.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Inventory Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.5%

Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%

Times of Survival is a co-op zombie survival game with souls-like inspired combat system, set in a post-apocalyptic world. Fortify your base, fight hordes of zombies and battle epic bosses. Explore, craft, and master punishing combat while building your settlement and leading survivors to hope.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Zombies 11.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Top-Down Shooter 9.2%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Survival Horror 13.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Zombies 15.7%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 8.4%

A scientist with great knowledge about humanity ends up back in the Stone Age and has to build a civilization and develop it into the modern age.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 9%

Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Survival Horror 10.9%, Zombies 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%

Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Survival Horror 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9%

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Farming Sim 15.5%, City Builder 13.3%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8.9%

Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival Horror 9.8%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%

The Rotting Chronicles is a survival action game set in a zombie-ravaged city where you must fight, scavenge, craft, and rebuild to survive. Run solo or with up to 3 friends as you grow your survival skills and find the best strategy to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Zombies 13.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Resource Management 7.9%

Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.2%

Foul is a survival game with story elements. Alone, you must face everything that comes your way. Contaminated animals, hunger, and darkness are just some of the dangers awaiting you.

Why similar: Zombies 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Base Building 9%, Inventory Management 9%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Farming Sim 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 8.7%

Explore jungle-choked corridors of a derelict ark, adrift between the stars. Construct shelters and loot powerful artifacts from the skeletal remains of your starfaring ancestors. But never let your guard down, because the jungle is alive and hostile…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Survival Horror 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.5% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 9%

Stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth centuries after humanity's exodus, "A Silent Desolation" is a solo survival game developed by one person. Face dangers, craft, explore, and uncover secrets while repairing a shuttle base to escape.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%

"Craft or die" It's up to you to decide. The solar eclipse will come 30 days later. Can you survive the raid of the day? The sandbox and survival crafting game where you can do everything you want.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Survival 10.7%, Building 10.1%

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Zombies 16.1%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 8.7%

Welcome to Last of Humanity, an online open-world sandbox multiplayer zombie survival game. Travel the zombie wasteland as you attempt to rebuild society controlling key locations to manufacture & produce equipment for survival. Forage, Craft and shoot your way to survival from the dead and living.

Why similar: Sandbox 14.7%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Zombies 10.7%, Crafting 10%

Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%

Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Farming Sim 12.1%, Inventory Management 11.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Sandbox 9%

A top-down 2D survival shooter with base building and crafting. Explore procedurally generated islands, secure resources, and defend—or raid—player bases in tense online PvP. Every run reshapes routes, chokepoints, and risk.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 11.5%

It’s time to look alive and get to safety. Drive, scavenge, eat, and crush ragdoll zombies as you try to survive this vast world. Meet survivors and accept quests or make enemies and loot them all.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Zombies 15.3%, Isometric 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival Horror 9.1%

As the brave crew sets course for the Red Planet, their mission takes a terrifying turn. In the vast emptiness of space, their once-proud vessel becomes a haunted nightmare. Can they survive the horrors that await them in the darkness and escape or will they succumb before completing their mission?

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Farming Sim 13.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World Survival Craft 9.6% ★

In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Inventory Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%

Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 13.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.8%

Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Inventory Management 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%

Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! The first stage of terraforming the world from the beginning of the apocalypse. Provides a discount for the full game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%

Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9%

Endure or Perish is an open world survival game played in the FP view. In order to survive you will need to gather resources from the land, manage your inventory, and build a base that you can retreat to when the going gets hard. Can you adapt and overcome? The choice is yours: endure or perish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Survival Horror 12.9%, Zombies 12.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Inventory Management 9.3%

New Spring is a open world zombie survival RPG where you spend the daytime exploring and scavenging for tools and weapons, and defend your base when night falls. How long can you stave off the hordes?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.5%

Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%

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 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 9.9%

Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 7.7%

The Revenants is a hardcore turn—based survival story generator with elements of strategy. Hide from the poisonous fog, search for items, fight the danger and try to save your life.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Isometric 17.3%, Inventory Management 10.5%, Zombies 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.6%

Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival Horror 10.2%

Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Survival Horror 13.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%

Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10%

Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.5%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 19%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Isometric 7.8%