DUCKSIDE
Rust with feathers. DUCKSIDE drops you on a big island as a duck with a gun, where you loot, craft, build a trash-house nest, and fly while shooting.
71% of 2,712 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
Co-op games like Rust
Miss the tense and dark pull of Rust? These co-op games line up well for what comes next. You can bring friends along for most of these.
DUCKSIDE
Rust with feathers. DUCKSIDE drops you on a big island as a duck with a gun, where you loot, craft, build a trash-house nest, and fly while shooting. Bring co-op friends and start your own flock to raid, defend, and wear hats together.
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71% of 2,712 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99Deadside
Deadside is an open-world survival shooter built for squads: loot together, stash gear in safe zones or raise a turret-guarded fortress, then roll out by car, bike, boat or metro to take missions and raid rivals. Swift progression and plenty of loot keep co-op friends in the action.
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76% of 34,673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$9.99SCUM
SCUM drops you and your co-op friends onto a huge prison island as contestants in a brutal live show. Scavenge towns and military bases, hunt, craft, build shelter, and track hunger, vitamins, and fatigue while puppets, monsters, and rival prisoners close in. It is harsh, detailed, and much easier to laugh through together.
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74% of 99,181 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8,793$44.99Dysterra
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
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55% of 778 Steam reviews are positiveFreeRem Survival
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.
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75% of 723 Steam reviews are positive$15.99Plains of Pain
A scorched sandbox built for co-op friends to survive together: share thirst, heat and bandit trouble, raise a base into a settlement, craft hover vehicles and tip faction fights over outposts. Rough around the edges, but made for joint bad decisions and joint rescues.
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84% of 1,039 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99Once Human
Once Human is a strange post-apocalyptic survival game best played with co-op friends. You team up to shoot monsters that used to be human, keep each other fed with clean food and water, and build a shared territory to live in. Good if you want survival with company and plenty to tinker with.
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79% of 195,611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16,311FreeOut of Reach
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
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54% of 2,393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.997 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is an open-world zombie survival sandbox for co-op friends: loot, craft, build a fort together, then hold it against the horde. Seven days of prep, one bad night, repeat until the walls fall or you do.
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86% of 281,033 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19,557$44.99Unturned
Unturned is a free blocky zombie survival sandbox that is best treated as a group project with co-op friends. You scavenge towns for supplies, build a fortified base, then roll out together for airdrops and deadzones. Or skip the friendship part and raid each other.
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91% of 565,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14,876FreeSunkenland
Sunkenland is a post-apocalyptic survival game set after the Earth flooded, where you and co-op friends scavenge sunken cities, build a water stronghold, and hold it against pirates and mutants. Good pick when your group wants shared chores, shared loot, and shared gunfire.
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80% of 20,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 997$19.99The Front
The Front is a post-apocalyptic open-world survival crafter where you and co-op friends team up as time-traveling resistance fighters. Gather, craft, build a trapped-up base, roll out in tanks and helicopters, and raid enemy camps together.
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66% of 9,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
Cheaper than Rust
Deadside
Deadside is an open-world survival shooter built for squads: loot together, stash gear in safe zones or raise a turret-guarded fortress, then roll…
76% of 34,673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$9.99
Rem Survival
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push…
75% of 723 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Plains of Pain
A scorched sandbox built for co-op friends to survive together: share thirst, heat and bandit trouble, raise a base into a settlement, craft hover…
84% of 1,039 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Out of Reach
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters.
54% of 2,393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Sunkenland
Sunkenland is a post-apocalyptic survival game set after the Earth flooded, where you and co-op friends scavenge sunken cities, build a water…
80% of 20,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 997$19.99
The Front
The Front is a post-apocalyptic open-world survival crafter where you and co-op friends team up as time-traveling resistance fighters.
66% of 9,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
Scrap Mechanic
Crash-land as a robot mechanic on a farm planet gone wrong, then team up with co-op friends to build vehicles, grow crops, and hold off waves of…
92% of 109,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,274$28.99
Far Lands
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies.
62% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Hide & Hold Out - H2o
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world.
51% of 479 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Survive the Nights
A hardcore open-world survival game about daylight prep and nighttime regret. By night the infected gather in hordes drawn to noise and light.
68% of 4,799 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 69$19.99
Volcanoids
Volcanoids gives you and up to three co-op friends a giant drillship instead of a fixed base.
83% of 7,696 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
Hidden gems like Rust
VEIN
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival sandbox for co-op friends who want to share the work of staying alive.
87% of 12,328 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 838$19.99
Project: Mist
Project: Mist is an open-world survival horror for solo or 1-4 player co-op on a strange island full of abandoned facilities and giant creatures.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$17.99
Plains of Pain
A scorched sandbox built for co-op friends to survive together: share thirst, heat and bandit trouble, raise a base into a settlement, craft hover…
84% of 1,039 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone.
85% of 20,788 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
IfSunSets
By day you and your co-op friends strip the island of Luminora for wood, ore and fish, then build it all into walls and traps.
74% of 2,370 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 93$19.99
Scrap Mechanic
Crash-land as a robot mechanic on a farm planet gone wrong, then team up with co-op friends to build vehicles, grow crops, and hold off waves of…
92% of 109,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,274$28.99
Away From Life
You wash up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home.
67% of 237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$12.99
Lost Rift
Lost Rift is a first-person survival shooter where you and up to four co-op friends share an island camp, craft gear, then risk it together on timed…
67% of 1,484 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
HumanitZ
HumanitZ is an isometric open-world zombie survival sandbox where you and co-op friends scavenge cities, hunt and farm in the country, and fight…
74% of 11,623 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,332$19.99
INCUR Survival
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…
80% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
DUCKSIDE
Rust with feathers. DUCKSIDE drops you on a big island as a duck with a gun, where you loot, craft, build a trash-house nest, and fly while shooting.
71% of 2,712 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
Survive the Nights
A hardcore open-world survival game about daylight prep and nighttime regret. By night the infected gather in hordes drawn to noise and light.
68% of 4,799 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 69$19.99
Newest co-op games like Rust
ZED ZONE
Scavenge a hostile open world, craft and mod your gear, raise a fortified base and push toward escape, alone or with friends.
81% of 4,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,206$7.19
Valheim
Valheim is a co-op exploration and survival game for 1-10 players in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology.
93% of 477,216 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48,014$26.99
GRAIN ROT
Ride a cursed elevator into shifting ruins with co-op friends, smash furniture for loot, feed the Grinder for gold, then make it back alive to…
87% of 2,202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 475$9.99
Scrap Mechanic
Crash-land as a robot mechanic on a farm planet gone wrong, then team up with co-op friends to build vehicles, grow crops, and hold off waves of…
92% of 109,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,274$28.99
EverRail
EverRail is an open-world survival craft game for 1 to 4 players on the frozen exomoon Inara, where your base is a train carrying the last of…
69% of 403 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
Nuclear Epoch
Team up in an open-world wasteland where you build a shelter together, then risk it all in shifting extraction zones.
77% of 530 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$14.99
Project: Mist
Project: Mist is an open-world survival horror for solo or 1-4 player co-op on a strange island full of abandoned facilities and giant creatures.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$17.99
Away From Life
You wash up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home.
67% of 237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$12.99
Project Castaway
Project Castaway strands you in the Pacific to hunt, fish, fell trees, and island-hop by raft while you build a base and finally a plane to escape.
64% of 1,845 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99
OxyRail
Build a rolling home in a world with almost no oxygen, then keep it alive with your co-op friends.
80% of 1,214 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$14.99
HumanitZ
HumanitZ is an isometric open-world zombie survival sandbox where you and co-op friends scavenge cities, hunt and farm in the country, and fight…
74% of 11,623 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,332$19.99
The Gold River Project
A camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest, playable solo or with up to 4 friends in online co-op.
62% of 670 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$24.99