- #1 Voidtrain
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Trains 42.8% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar core loop of surviving and upgrading a train as you travel through a hostile, ever-changing environment.
- #2 Heat Death: Survival Train
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 673 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Trains 31.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a direct parallel to the train-based survival mechanics found in Zompiercer within a frozen, post-apocalyptic world.
- #3 Pandemic Train
96% matchMixed58% of 243 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
Windows
In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
Why similar: Trains 43.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on managing a train as a mobile haven while making difficult survival choices during a global catastrophe.
- #4 Choo-Choo Charles
95% matchVery Positive91% of 17,081 reviews2022
Dev: Two Star Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.
Why similar: Trains 40.1% ★, Open World 13.6%, Horror 10%, FPS 9.3%, Shooter 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines the unique concept of train-based travel with first-person horror and exploration elements.
- #5 7 Days to Die
94% 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: Zombies 19.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive zombie survival game for players who enjoy deep base-building and scavenging mechanics.
- #6 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, FPS 15.4%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar experience of managing a mobile base that you must constantly upgrade to survive environmental threats.
- #7 The Final Station
93% matchVery Positive87% of 9,347 reviews2016
Dev: DO MY BESTPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.
Why similar: Trains 32.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Zombies 19.1%, Survival 13.7%, Shooter 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the atmospheric dread of traveling through a collapsed world by train while managing resources and survivors.
- #8 Mist Survival
92% 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: Zombies 27.6%, Survival 20.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A strong focus on first-person zombie survival, crafting, and base fortification in a dangerous open world.
- #9 Project Zomboid
91% 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: Zombies 32.9%, Survival 21.5%, Open World 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Sandbox 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the most comprehensive zombie survival simulation, focusing on the gritty reality of scavenging and fortification.
- #10 Night of the Dead
91% 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: Zombies 26.9%, Base Building 21%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features complex base-building and trap-crafting mechanics essential for surviving waves of zombies.
- #11 VEIN
90% 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 20.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 13%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes realistic mechanics and the challenge of establishing a secure base in a zombie-ridden environment.
- #12 SurrounDead
89% 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 30.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 15%, Base Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of looting, crafting, and surviving against hordes of zombies in a large open world.
- #13 Raft
89% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Survival 36.2%, Base Building 24.9%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 14.7%, First-Person 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: While set on water, it mirrors the mobile base-building and resource-gathering loop that makes train-based survival games compelling.
- #14 HumanitZ
88% 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: Zombies 21.1%, Base Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that captures the essence of scavenging and base-building in a classic zombie apocalypse.
- #15 Outbreak Island
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Sandbox 15.6%, Zombies 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on investigation and survival in a mysterious, zombie-infested environment.
- #16 State of Decay: YOSE
87% matchVery Positive82% of 12,934 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.
Why similar: Zombies 31.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community management and base building in a zombie-infested world, emphasizing the need for a secure home base.
- #17 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: Zombies 33%, Base Building 29.6%, Survival 16.7%, Action-Adventure 14%, 3D 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base that players must upgrade and defend while traveling through dangerous territories.
- #18 The Infected
85% matchVery Positive84% of 6,935 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Base Building 19.8%, Zombies 15.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a secure base and managing resources to survive against both zombies and wildlife.
- #19 Dying Light
84% 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: Zombies 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, FPS 11%, Open World 10.4%, Stealth 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides high-octane first-person zombie combat and parkour exploration in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #20 Days Gone
83% matchVery Positive93% of 114,079 reviews2021
Dev: Bend StudioPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 19.0 hrsMean: 43.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
Why similar: Zombies 30.1%, Open World 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Survival 14.1%, Action-Adventure 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a motorcycle as your primary mobile asset, emphasizing the importance of vehicle maintenance and survival in a zombie-filled wilderness.
- #21 Deadside
82% 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: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, FPS 17.7%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that emphasizes tactical combat and scavenging in a large, unforgiving post-apocalyptic map.
- #22 Fargone
84% 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: Base Building 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, FPS 13.8%, Action RPG 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter that emphasizes survival and base-building in a harsh, post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #23 Unturned
82% 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: Zombies 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, FPS 12.3%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines accessible survival mechanics with base-building and zombie combat in a stylized open world.
- #24 SCUM
81% 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: Zombies 26.1%, Open World 18.2%, Sandbox 18%, FPS 17.3%, Survival 17.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep survival mechanics and realistic inventory management for players who enjoy the grit of post-apocalyptic life.
- #25 DeadPoly
81% 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: Zombies 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival shooter that focuses on looting and building in a multiplayer zombie apocalypse.
- #26 Oxygen Train
78% matchVery Positive82% of 480 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 36.7% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on train management and base construction in a harsh, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #27 Scrap Mechanic
79% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Open World 19.3%, Survival 18.4%, Funny 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on engineering, its building mechanics are excellent for players who enjoy constructing mobile survival platforms.
- #28 Zombie Graveyard Simulator
77% matchVery Positive90% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!
Why similar: Zombies 19.9%, Agriculture 17.8% ★, Base Building 14.9%, FPS 12.7%, Survival 10.1%
- #29 Shadows of Kurgansk
80% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!
Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, FPS 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a mysterious, dangerous zone.
- #30 Decision: Red Daze
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 880 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Zombies 23.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Survival 13.1%, Action RPG 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RPG elements with base-building and survival in a world overrun by a zombie-like infection.
- #31 Walking Zombie 2
77% 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: Zombies 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, FPS 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 9.7%
- #32 MEAT TRAIN
75% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Kiwiforge
Windows
Meat Train is a FPS game where you operate a train thats uses MEAT for FUEL. Explore a wasteland where everything wants you dead, scavenge for weapons and loot. Upgrade the train and attempt to destroy an evil AI megafactory.
Why similar: Zombies 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, FPS 14.3%, Open World 9.2%, Horror 9.1%
- #33 DREADZONE
76% 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: Base Building 20.4%, Zombies 20%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.8%
- #34 Junk Survivor
76% 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 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.8%
- #35 Dread Dawn
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,217 reviews2024
Dev: Kioop
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 25.5 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 29.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 16.1%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 12.3%
- #36 No One Survived
73% 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 28.2%, Survival 20.3%, Open World 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #37 The Last Caretaker
70% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Sandbox 18.5%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 14.4%
- #38 State of Decay
73% 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 34%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 10%
- #39 Gone: Survival
75% 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 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 10.2%
- #40 Epicenter VR
73% matchMixed65% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: FiveVolt Games
Windows
Save the last survivors after a deadly zombie virus has taken over your island home. Protect those closest to you at all costs and evacuate before supplies run out.
Why similar: Zombies 20%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Stealth 11.3%, Survival 10.4%
- #41 DARKEST DAYS
71% 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 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Open World 14.5%, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.4%
- #42 Dead Matter
74% 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 14.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, FPS 10.5%
- #43 Zombie Survival Game Online
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 308 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 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Base Building 14.9%, FPS 12.5%, Survival 10.6%
- #44 Forever Skies
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 16.9%, First-Person 8.4%
- #45 Crushed
72% 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: Base Building 14.3%, FPS 14.1%, Zombies 13.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%
- #46 Choo Choo Survivor
69% matchVery Positive85% of 585 reviews2023
Dev: GTGD
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!
Why similar: Trains 49.9% ★, Zombies 14.5%, Action RPG 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Horror 6.6%
- #47 Dead District: Survival
71% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Base Building 13.9%, Zombies 13.6%, FPS 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #48 Apocalypse Island
70% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Bettini Games
Windows
As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.
Why similar: Zombies 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
- #49 Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,837 reviews2024
Dev: PentaclePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?
Why similar: Trains 47.9% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 12.2%, First-Person 7.8%
- #50 ZED ZONE
68% matchVery Positive80% of 3,558 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 15%, Open World 14.8%
- #51 Taora : Beginning
67% 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: Sandbox 15.2%, Zombies 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Base Building 12.7%, Action RPG 10.8%
- #52 Winter Survivor Protocol
67% 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 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Open World 17.5%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Survival 8.3%
- #53 Deadburg
69% matchVery Positive88% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: Reanimated Games
Windows
Deadburg is a co-op survival game set in a procedurally generated city with thousands of buildings to explore and zombies to kill. Every building you see can be explored, exploited and destroyed one block at a time. Play alone or with friends and discover the secrets of the city.
Why similar: Zombies 24.7%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, FPS 12.1%
- #54 Drive 4 Survival
69% matchMixed65% of 304 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 18.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Zombies 14.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.1%
- #55 Stay Alive: Apocalypse
70% matchMixed50% of 163 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 28.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 16%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 12.1%
- #56 Project Silverfish
64% matchVery Positive94% of 2,953 reviews2025
Dev: Siris Pendrake
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.
Why similar: FPS 15.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Shooter 10.4%, Open World 10.1%
- #57 Temporal Purge: Z
66% matchVery Positive88% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Exec Games
Windows
Become an interdimensional zombie slayer in Temporal Purge: Z, an action-packed zombie-survival FPS. Face the zombie onslaught as you eradicate countless undead monsters on your quest to save the future.
Why similar: Zombies 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, FPS 15%, Survival 12%, Shooter 7.4%
- #58 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
66% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.5%, Base Building 21.5%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%