Mist Survival
Scavenge, build and defend a base while the infected hunt in the fog.
75% of 13,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 113$10.99
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Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
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65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99City 20
Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.
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73% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$19.99DREADZONE
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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51% of 1,189 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Mist Survival
A virus wiped out most of the world, and you are one of the few immune. Scavenge forests, villages and a military camp, build and defend a base, and keep survivors alive. The catch: dense mist rolls in without warning, and that is when the infected come hunting. A tense single-player survival sandbox with real teeth.
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75% of 13,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 113$10.99Heavenworld
Heavenworld is an open world adventure game mixing role playing, survival and management with NPC survivors. Each game is unique and managed by a game master who influences events. A powerful map editor is also available.
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59% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Project: Mist
Project: Mist drops you on a foggy island full of monsters, abandoned facilities and dark secrets. You survive with a Gravity Gun, a train you build into a moving base, and a cooking pot full of strange critters. Play the story campaign alone or with up to three friends. It is rough in places, and the atmosphere makes up for it.
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72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$17.99Once Human
Once Human is an odd post-apocalyptic survival game where you join friends against monsters, build your own territory, and uncover what Stardust wants. You watch food and water for Sanity, hunt bosses for powerful loot, and shape guns with parts, perks, and upgrades.
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79% of 195,736 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21,958FreeFargone
An open world survival RPG in the Barrens, a post-apocalyptic wasteland where factions fight over territory and survivors live whether you watch them or not. Scavenge ruined towns, build a powered stronghold, treat broken limbs, and decide who to befriend or betray. Grim, tense and rough around the edges, in Early Access and still growing.
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70% of 546 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$11.99KeepUp Survival
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
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62% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99Jaws Of Extinction™
Currently in redevelopment [06/2026]: The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
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53% of 283 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Plains of Pain
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you. Fight heat, thirst and hordes of madmen, build a settlement from nothing, craft hover vehicles to cross the desert, and pick a side in a faction war over the last outposts. Solo or with friends, every procedurally generated wasteland plays out differently.
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84% of 1,042 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$9.99Frozen State
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.
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63% of 515 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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City 20
Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and…
73% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Heavenworld
Heavenworld is an open world adventure game mixing role playing, survival and management with NPC survivors.
59% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Project: Mist
Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$17.99
Fargone
Scavenge the wasteland, raise a stronghold and shape a world where every survivor's fate hangs on your choices.
70% of 546 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$11.99
KeepUp Survival
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world.
62% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Jaws Of Extinction™
Currently in redevelopment [06/2026]: The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite.
53% of 283 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Plains of Pain
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.
84% of 1,042 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$9.99
Frozen State
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.
63% of 515 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
The Infected
Gather, craft and build through the seasons, with the option to face the Vambies or leave them out entirely.
84% of 6,621 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 109$15.99
LIFE EFFECT Survival
A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.
85% of 560 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$14.99
Genesis Survivors
Welcome, hackers, you're being transferred to Eden City to defend its citizens against the alien threat!
69% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Scavland
Scavenge the wasteland for parts, build your own guns and push a little further each time, knowing ammo runs out faster than mutants do.
83% of 1,107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 88$19.99
LIFE EFFECT Survival
A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.
85% of 560 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$14.99
No Man's Home
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild…
87% of 316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
D.E.C.A.Y.
Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with…
81% of 107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Outbreak Island
Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.
78% of 1,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Peripeteia
A cyborg mercenary works the grimy streets and rooftops of a decaying post-Soviet city, where shooting, sneaking, hacking or talking each get you…
86% of 3,244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$24.99
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 4,435 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,401$7.19
VEIN
Scavenge, build and fight your way through a grim open world, alone or with friends at your side.
87% of 12,355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 693$19.99
Project: Mist
Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$17.99
The Last Caretaker
Salvage, build and sail a flooded Earth while raising the last of humankind in your machine-run complex.
86% of 14,164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,848$34.99
Plains of Pain
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.
84% of 1,042 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$9.99
MISERY
Raid irradiated ruins, hunt artifacts and keep your bunker standing while your mind holds on.
85% of 20,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
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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 4,435 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,401$7.19
Scavland
Scavenge the wasteland for parts, build your own guns and push a little further each time, knowing ammo runs out faster than mutants do.
83% of 1,107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 88$19.99
D.E.C.A.Y.
Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with…
81% of 107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Urban Strife
A turn-based tactical survival RPG with real bullet physics, factions with their own agendas and a shelter to rebuild.
69% of 675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$34.99
Project: Mist
Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$17.99
LIFE EFFECT Survival
A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.
85% of 560 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$14.99
Peregrino
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night.
65% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
HumanitZ
Scavenge ruined cities, build a shelter worth defending, and see how long you last in a grim open world.
74% of 11,630 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,090$19.99
ENTITY: THE BLACK DAY
A former special forces operative is sent to uncover a government cover-up tied to a secret viral experiment.
80% of 521 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
No One Survived
Scavenge, craft and build a real home in a grim zombie world, then hold it when the dead close in, alone or with friends.
64% of 7,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$16.99
No Man's Home
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild…
87% of 316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Survive the Nights
Scavenge, fortify a shelter and get ready before dark, then survive the night alone or with friends in a grim, tense zombie world.
68% of 4,799 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$19.99