
Human Host
Gather and build by day, survive the night horde, or put your whole base on wheels and move on before the zombies catch up.
Did HumanitZ leave you in a dark and tense frame of mind? These games are a good place to start. Many of them are fun to share with friends.
An open-world zombie survival sandbox where everything can be knocked down, dug up or driven through. Gather, craft and fortify by day, then hold off the night horde, or strap your base to wheels and simply drive away. Physics-driven combat, wild vehicle building and an endless procedural world make every run its own mess.
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A hardcore zombie survival sandbox where the day is for work and the night is for holding on. Fortify a house or turn a school bus into a rolling fortress, alone or with friends.
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VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival sandbox for going it alone or rebuilding with friends. You scavenge abandoned buildings, fight zombies and bandits, fortify a safehouse, grow food, and keep a car running after the canned goods run out.
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Project Zomboid strands you in towns loosely based on Kentucky with no rescue coming. You loot, barricade and craft, and every run turns into your own survival story. Punishing and darkly funny, it is worth playing if you want a zombie sandbox where planning each step beats rushing.
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A remote island, a cryptic message from your missing father, and a strange beam that wakes the dead every night. Scavenge by day, refuel abandoned machines and face monsters after dark, and turn a ruined farm into a home worth defending. Open-world survival horror with a mystery at its core.
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A hardcore open-world survival sandbox in a zombie apocalypse. Track hunger, thirst, illness and mood, learn everything from metallurgy to cooking, build a real house with load-bearing walls, and defend it when the horde comes. Play alone or with friends, and tune the apocalypse to your taste.
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Five years after the virus, the towns are quiet, the dead are not, and survival is up to you. SurrounDead drops you into a wide open wasteland to loot guns and coats, trade for the missing piece, fortify a hideout, and keep your car running. Rough, roomy, and easy to lose an evening in.
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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.
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DeadPoly is a low-poly zombie survival looter shooter: scavenge, craft, build a base, level up, and stay fed while the world falls apart. Survival is the only goal; everything else is optional. Play alone, on servers, or in co-op with friends, and see how long you last.
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Your plane crashes in a quarantined zone full of zombies, mutants and rogue machines. Scavenge, craft, build a fortified base, level up your skills and fight your way toward escape. A top-down survival sandbox with guns you can mod, a loyal dog, and hordes that test every wall you build.
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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.
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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.
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Gather and build by day, survive the night horde, or put your whole base on wheels and move on before the zombies catch up.

Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.

Scavenge a zombie-ridden open world for gear and supplies, trade for what you lack, and turn a hideout into a base that keeps you alive.

Scavenge, craft and build a real home in a grim zombie world, then hold it when the dead close in, alone or with friends.

Scavenge a hostile open world, craft and mod your gear, raise a fortified base and push toward escape, alone or with friends.

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies…

Loot a low-poly apocalypse for supplies, raise a base, and keep yourself fed as long as you can, alone or with friends.

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive.

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde.

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right.

Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game.

An open-world zombie survival game where the day is for gathering, crafting and building, and the night is for holding the line.

Gather and build by day, survive the night horde, or put your whole base on wheels and move on before the zombies catch up.

Scavenge a dying city, build up your shelter and hold out against the horde in a roguelite survival run where death carries your memories forward.

Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.

Scavenge a hostile open world, craft and mod your gear, raise a fortified base and push toward escape, alone or with friends.

Keep a fragile group of survivors fed, armed and moving through a grim, tense story where every choice can cost a life.

Scavenge, build and fight your way through a grim open world, alone or with friends at your side.

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

Build up a colossal moving base, keep it fueled, and defend its deck from zombie hordes by night, alone or with friends.

Scavenge, fortify a shelter and get ready before dark, then survive the night alone or with friends in a grim, tense zombie world.

An open-world zombie survival game where the day is for gathering, crafting and building, and the night is for holding the line.

Build a survivor colony anywhere on the map, scavenge by day and fight off the infected when night falls.

Turn the undead into farmhands and bodyguards, then carve a home out of a ruined world, alone or with friends.

Scavenge a hostile open world, craft and mod your gear, raise a fortified base and push toward escape, alone or with friends.

Scavenge a dying city, build up your shelter and hold out against the horde in a roguelite survival run where death carries your memories forward.

Rewind to the week before the apocalypse, stockpile supplies, upgrade your RV and survive the frozen road in runs that play out differently every…

Build up a colossal moving base, keep it fueled, and defend its deck from zombie hordes by night, alone or with friends.

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

Gather and build by day, survive the night horde, or put your whole base on wheels and move on before the zombies catch up.

Scavenge, craft and build a real home in a grim zombie world, then hold it when the dead close in, alone or with friends.

Scavenge, fortify a shelter and get ready before dark, then survive the night alone or with friends in a grim, tense zombie world.

Gather, craft and fortify a base, then push back against the empire in first person, alone or with friends.

Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.

Scavenge, build and fight your way through a grim open world, alone or with friends at your side.

Track your body, craft your gear and fight prisoners, zombies and worse on a brutal open-world prison island.