Survival crafting games like Ashes

Looking for that same dark and tense spark as Ashes? Start with these survival crafting games when you are ready.

Shadows of Kurgansk
“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!
Dark, Tense, Scary
66% of 204 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
LifeZ - Survival
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.
Dark, Tense, Scary
68% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Into The Haze
Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.
Dark, Tense, Scary
55% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Andarilho
Andarilho is a stripped-down first-person survival sandbox: a guy with a backpack, a small map of towns and wilderness, and one job to stay alive. You scavenge food and water, hunt animals, mine blocks, craft tools and a car, and build shelter, with aliens and zombies as extra threats.
Dark, Scary
65% of 1,207 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
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 from creatures, and other players.
Tense, Scary
80% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Sheltered
Sheltered puts you in charge of a family of four hiding in an underground bunker after nuclear war. You keep them fed, watered and sane, expand the shelter, craft gear and send scavengers into the wasteland. Grim, tense and hard to put down for survival crafters who like every scrap to count.
Dark, Tense, Scary
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.49
30 days to survive
"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.
Dark, Tense, Scary
76% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
iZolated
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Dark, Tense, Scary
66% of 120 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
How to Survive
Shipwrecked on zombie islands, you scavenge food, water and scrap, then bolt together over 100 handmade weapons and tools. Short, scrappy and funny, it scratches the survival crafting itch without demanding a hundred hours.
Dark, Tense, Scary
82% of 14,000 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$14.99
Survivalist
One year after the collapse, hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler leaves his bunker because he is out of food. Survivalist is a top-down open-world action RPG about finding other survivors, earning their trust, and building a community that can hold out against fast zombies, raiders, and hunger. Scavenge, trade, plant crops, take quests, and live with what you decide.
Dark, Tense, Scary
80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
SurrounDead
SurrounDead drops you into a broken open world five years after the virus, where the dead and hostile survivors want you gone. You loot houses for guns, clothes and gear, barricade a building or camp wild, keep a vehicle running as backup storage, and tune the difficulty to your taste.
Dark, Tense, Scary
90% of 25,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,494$11.99
Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Dark, Tense, Scary
79% of 820 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99

Cheaper than Ashes

Forest Woodman

Immerse yourself in the everyday life of a simple forester in a large northern country.

$0.89

Yet Another Survival Game

A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone, you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by fierce creatures!

$0.69

Bronze Age - HD Edition

What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?

$0.80

New Horizon

New Horizon is a survival with RPG game. Explore a vast world in search of resources, build, upgrade your equipment and fight monsters to survive.

$0.89

Chasing Her Light

Chasing Her Light is a survival-adventure game about a grieving man who ventures into a snowy forest to find his missing dog, battling the cold and…

$0.69

魂之大陆 Soultia

$0.89

Croaktopia

Croaktopia is a quirky survival adventure game set in a lush forest under siege by a corrupt construction company.

$0.79

Night City

"Night City" is a cooperative first-person horror game with survival elements, here you will play as one of the company's clones, and go down into…

$0.74

Gladiator

Try to survive for honor and glory as Elvan in the medieval world. Build cities, gather your men, construct castles, and follow the main story.

$0.74

Hidden gems like Ashes

Outbreak Island

You inherit your missing father's old farm on a remote island where a night beam wakes machines and monsters.

$14.99

Project: Mist

Project: Mist is an open-world survival horror on a strange island, built for survival crafters who want dread with their dinner.

$17.99

Survival Machine

Your base is a giant rolling Machine, and zombies want it every night.

$19.99

Urge

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

$17.99

HumanitZ

A zombie outbreak left humans as an endangered species, and you are one of the holdouts.

$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…

$3.99

Survive the Nights

Nights are for holding your breath while the infected gather in numbers.

$19.99

SurrounDead

SurrounDead drops you into a broken open world five years after the virus, where the dead and hostile survivors want you gone.

$11.99

Green Project

You wake from 300 years of cryosleep to a dead Earth covered in toxic fungus.

$5.99

iZolated

iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest…

$5.99

DeadPoly

DeadPoly is a blocky zombie survival sandbox where gathering, crafting, and base building are the way you stay alive.

$9.99

No One Survived

No One Survived is a co-op open-world survival sandbox where you scavenge towns and forests, track hunger, water, health and mood, and build a…

$16.99

Newest survival crafting games like Ashes