Games like Rust

Miss the tense and dark pull of Rust? These games line up well for what comes next. You can bring friends along for most of these.

DUCKSIDE
A persistent-world survival game where everyone is a duck. Chop trees, craft weapons, build a nest and take to the air: you can glide, hover and dive while shooting. Raid other ducks, get raided, rebuild. It is Rust's survival loop with webbed feet, a cartoony look and flight that changes every fight.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
72% of 2,708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Deadside
Deadside is a fast-moving open-world survival shooter where loot comes quick and gunfights decide who keeps it. Stash gear in safe zones, build a fortified base in the wild, then take cars, bikes, boats or the metro back out for missions, events and raids.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
76% of 34,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$24.99
SCUM
SCUM drops you on a huge prison island as a televised contestant who has to loot, hunt, craft, and build to stay alive. Your body, skills, and reputation all shift with what you eat, how you fight, and who you cross. Zombies, mutants, mechs, and other prisoners all want a piece of you.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
74% of 99,153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8,793$44.99
Dysterra
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!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
55% of 778 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Rem 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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
75% of 723 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
BEACHED
You gather resources, build a trapped-up base, loot monuments from airfields to a volcano base, and fight other players for it all. Fast gunplay, hard raids, no guarantees.
Also in Survival crafting · Tense, Competitive
64% of 3,688 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Plains 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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
84% of 1,037 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 56$19.99
Once 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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
79% of 195,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20,302Free
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. 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!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Competitive, Replayable
54% of 2,391 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.64
7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is a survival sandbox in a ruined land full of the undead, blending shooting, tower defense, and role-playing. You loot, craft, grow skills through perks and books, and build a fort to hold through zombie hordes. It rewards planning, building, and playing with friends across a large, rough world.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Brutal
86% of 280,939 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25,118$44.99
Unturned
Scavenge for supplies, build a fortified base, chase airdrops and decide whether the stranger on the road is a friend or your last mistake. Solo or with friends, every run plays out differently.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Competitive
91% of 565,082 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17,344Free
Sunkenland
A post-apocalyptic survival game set after the seas swallowed most of the Earth. You scavenge sunken skyscrapers and subways, build a base on water or land, fight pirates and mutants, trade item for item, and team up with friends. Worth playing for the waterlogged scavenging loop and the freedom to shape your own stronghold.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark
80% of 20,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 997$19.99

Cheaper than Rust

DUCKSIDE

Build a nest, craft weapons and take to the air in a persistent world where every fight is against other ducks.

$14.99

Rem Survival

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push…

$15.99

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.

$1.64

Strayed

A VR survival game where you wash up on a beach with a rock and a torch, and everything else you have to take, make or defend.

$14.99

Far Lands

Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies.

$10.99

Subsistence

Gather, craft and farm your way from nothing to a fortified homestead, then hold it against hunters who build and raid just like you do.

$13.99

Hide & Hold Out - H2o

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world.

$17.99

Mist Survival

Scavenge, build and defend a base while the infected hunt in the fog.

$10.99

SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now

Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game.

$14.99

ARK: Survival Evolved

Hunt, craft and build a home on a hostile island, then tame and ride the creatures that once hunted you.

$9.89

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

KeepUp Survival

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world.

$14.99

Hidden gems like Rust

LIFE EFFECT Survival

A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.

$14.99

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.

$14.99

VEIN

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

$19.99

Plains of Pain

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

$19.99

Strayed

A VR survival game where you wash up on a beach with a rock and a torch, and everything else you have to take, make or defend.

$14.99

IfSunSets

Gather, craft and fortify on a cursed island, then hold your ground when the dead rise at dusk.

$19.99

Scrap Mechanic

Crash-land on a robot-infested farm planet and tinker your way through it, alone or with friends.

$28.99

Lost Rift

You wash up at Pioneers’ Landing with nothing, and leave as a legend if you plan well.

$24.99

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…

$3.99

DUCKSIDE

Build a nest, craft weapons and take to the air in a persistent world where every fight is against other ducks.

$14.99

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.

$19.99

Longvinter

Camp on a colorful island, live off the land and choose between trading, teaming up or fighting the other researchers around you.

$19.99

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