- #1 DeadPoly
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Looter Shooter 15.1% ★, Zombies 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #2 Deadside
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 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 25.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Looter Shooter 9.7% ★, FPS 9%
- #3 Survive the Nights
95% matchMixed66% of 6,549 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 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: Looter Shooter 19.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.3% ★, Zombies 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #4 SurrounDead
94% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 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 24.4%, Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Open World 10.7%
- #5 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
94% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 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 39.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 7.2%, Zombies 6.2%
- #6 Junk Survivor
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 81 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 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.7%
- #7 Miscreated
92% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 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 39.3% ★, Zombies 14.1%, Survival 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
- #8 No One Survived
91% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 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: Zombies 20.7%, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Open World 11.8%
- #9 Crafting Dead
91% matchMixed57% of 158 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: Looter Shooter 19.9% ★, Zombies 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #10 Taora : Survival
90% matchMixed61% of 405 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: Looter Shooter 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #11 Unturned
89% matchVery Positive91% of 562,983 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.1 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 24% ★, Zombies 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.5%
- #12 7 Days to Die
87% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.7% ★, Zombies 13.8%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
- #13 Will To Live Online
89% matchMixed69% of 18,236 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Survival 19%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Open World 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #14 XERA: Survival
88% matchMixed66% of 7,908 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Looter Shooter 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #15 Survival Machine
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Parkour 17.5%, Zombies 16.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.9%
- #16 SmallZ
86% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 27.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%
- #17 Walking Zombie 2
84% matchVery Positive88% of 13,148 reviews2019
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Zombies 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, FPS 10.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #18 DREADZONE
84% matchMixed52% of 1,188 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 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%
- #19 Gone: Survival
85% matchMixed44% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Zombies 15%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.8%
- #20 INCUR Survival
83% matchVery Positive82% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Zombies 15.9%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.3%
- #21 Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha
82% matchVery Positive88% of 9,878 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Zombies 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, FPS 8%
- #22 DARKEST DAYS
82% matchMixed49% of 4,909 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 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: Zombies 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Survival 12%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%
- #23 Urge
81% matchVery Positive90% of 498 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
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 26.5% ★, Looter Shooter 15.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #24 Project Zomboid
80% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 27.1% ★, Zombies 20.7%, Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Open World 8.7%
- #25 PolyZ
81% matchMixed50% of 272 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Zombies 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #26 HumanitZ
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,839 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Zombies 15.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #27 Night of the Dead
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 26.1% ★, Zombies 14.3%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #28 Mist Survival
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 33.6% ★, Zombies 18.8%, Survival 16%, Base Building 10%, Open World 9.3%
- #29 Taora : Beginning
77% matchVery Positive87% of 2,235 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 31% ★, Zombies 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, PvE 8%
- #30 Nomad
79% 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 36.1% ★, Zombies 15.4%, Survival 12.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 7.9%
- #31 Plains of Pain
75% matchVery Positive84% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 10%
- #32 Blood Night
73% matchVery Positive96% of 108 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 18.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 11.1%, Survival 11%, Base Building 9.6%
- #33 Rem Survival
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Crafting 13%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11%, Building 9.8%
- #34 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
76% 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 19.6% ★, Looter Shooter 17.9% ★, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 7.1%, FPS 6.7%
- #35 Crushed
76% matchMixed54% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 27.3% ★, Survival 8.9%, Zombies 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, FPS 8.3%
- #36 Fargone
74% matchMixed69% of 585 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 26.2% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, FPS 9.3%
- #37 Soviet Survival
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 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 18%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11.3%
- #38 Last Whisper
73% matchMixed66% of 192 reviews2024
Dev: 12Studio
Windows
Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Zombies 13.9%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 10.4%, Building 7.9%
- #39 VEIN
70% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 21.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Open World 12%
- #40 Subsistence
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 7.2%
- #41 Dying Light
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 487,201 reviews2015
Dev: Techland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 21.6 hrsMean: 61.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Zombies 15.7%, Parkour 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #42 Sunkenland
71% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%
- #43 Far Lands
72% matchMixed65% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 8.4%
- #44 Polygeddon
71% matchMixed41% of 66 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: Looter Shooter 22.9% ★, Zombies 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.5%
- #45 How to Survive 2
71% matchMixed69% of 11,001 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Zombies 22.6%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 7.4%
- #46 Skopje '83
68% matchMixed69% of 171 reviews2025
Dev: Dark-1Pub: PM Studios, Inc.
Windows
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 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 10%
- #47 Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
69% matchMixed58% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.Pub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Why similar: Zombies 20%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Survival 12.9%
- #48 Zelter
70% matchMixed48% of 1,973 reviews2020
Dev: G1 PlaygroundPub: SuperGG.com
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
Why similar: Zombies 21%, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 12.7%, Building 10.1%
- #49 CastleMiner Z
69% matchVery Positive81% of 11,113 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Zombies 16.3%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #50 SCUM
63% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Zombies 14.5%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #51 Dead Matter
69% matchMostly Negative21% of 885 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Zombies 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 10.5%
- #52 Deadline Escape
64% matchVery Positive88% of 315 reviews2026
Dev: DeadlineEscape
Windows
Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 45.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Survival 15.3%, FPS 5.7%, Zombies 4.7%
- #53 Ruins To Fortress
66% matchMixed64% of 176 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 27.1% ★, Looter Shooter 13.1% ★, Crafting 9%, Base Building 9%, Survival 8%
- #54 Winter Survivor Protocol
64% matchMostly Positive75% of 153 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 34.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.3%, Open World 16%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #55 Survival: Lost Way
68% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, FPS 12.6%, Base Building 10.8%
- #56 DayZ
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 461,119 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.8 hrsMean: 275.7 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: Zombies 18%, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, FPS 11.1%