Top rated fast-paced survival games
Movement never really stops across these survival crafting picks. In Terraria, Muck and Dying Light you grab raw materials while danger closes in, so you keep shaping better tools and weapons and throwing up shelter between fights. You spend your time running, climbing, digging and improvising, then defending what you built when night falls or the horde arrives.
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Terraria
Terraria drops you into a randomly generated 2D world with almost nothing and lets you dig, fight, explore and build your way up. You chop, mine and loot raw materials, craft ever-better gear, raise shelter for yourself and the mysterious allies who move in, and hold that ground against what comes at night. A long, generous loop for survival crafters who like starting small and growing strong.
97% of 1,250,509 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38,342$9.99Dying Light
Dying Light is a first-person zombie survival game in the quarantined city of Harran. You roam rooftops and streets by parkour, scavenge for supplies, and craft melee weapons to survive the infected. By day you hunt and gather, by night you become the hunted. Worth playing for that tense loop of running, crafting and barely getting back alive.
95% of 382,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11,546Muck
Muck strands you on a procedurally generated island where you punch trees, craft tools, weapons and armor, and throw up a base by day, then hold it through the night when strange enemies crawl out of the dark. Runs are short, chaotic and built for co-op, with powerups that keep every attempt different.
93% of 185,191 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,030FreeDays Gone
Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure about drifter and bounty hunter Deacon St. John, two years after a global pandemic, surviving among Freakers, gangs, and harsh Pacific Northwest wilderness. You scavenge abandoned settlements, craft weapons, traps, and supplies, and keep your Drifter bike fueled and repaired. Worth playing for huge hordes, shifting weather and day-night danger, and a long story about loss and endurance.
92% of 83,519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,215$39.99Hamster Hunter
You come home for a family reunion, your family is gone, and somehow hamsters are to blame. Hunt them, trap them, breed them, then turn them into meat patties to fund bigger traps. A short, darkly funny open-world survival crafter about building an automated hamster-processing empire for revenge.
94% of 3,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.99Unturned
You scavenge towns for supplies, hunt for food, craft gear and build a fortified base, then risk it all on runs for airdrops and deadzones. Best with friends, whether you team up against bandits or raid each other.
91% of 565,148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20,281FreeDevil Spire Falls
Devil Spire Falls is a first-person open-world action RPG with a retro look where you can also settle down: mine ore, gather, fish, farm crops, and build your own house or base between dungeon runs. Choices stick, death sticks, and the foggy world does not wait for you.
94% of 1,166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99SurrounDead
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.
90% of 25,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,494$11.99Crashlands
Stranded trucker Flux Dabes has packages to recover on planet Woanope, and that means chopping, mining, fishing, and crafting over 500 tools, weapons, armor, and gadgets. A chatty, story-driven take on survival crafting games, with tameable beasts and easy base building.
90% of 5,577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99CleanFall
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
93% of 508 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$11.99Cryptid Farm
Cultivate a thriving farm to survive in this peaceful horror farming game! Play online with up to 16 players in the same lobby. Work together with your fellow farmers to repair your tractor and escape the farm, try not to fall victim to the eerie and mysterious creatures that lurk nearby.
96% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha
Stuck on a zombie island with a procedurally generated city to strip for resources. You loot, fight waves in first or third person, take down bosses at points of interest, and bring stronger loadout tiers next time. Rough and in open alpha, but fun in co-op.
88% of 11,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 100Free
