Survival
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Best Games in the Survival genre for PC
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Survival, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Online, Zombies
Game released: PC → 13 December 2018
Players:
7/10
DayZ is a multiplayer survival horror game with an open world. Before us is the post-Soviet country of Chernarus, which was struck by an unknown virus. Most of the...
Role-playing game, Action, Simulation, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Science fiction, Survival, Open world, Crafting
Game released: PC → 10 June 2025
VGTimes:
8.0/10
Players:
8.9/10
Metacritic:
78/100
A multiplayer open-world survival game inspired by Frank Herbert's iconic Dune universe. Players find themselves on Arrakis, a merciless sand planet where every day...
Adventure, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 20 June 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
7.8/10
A cooperative game in which the gamer creates the perfect Viking settlement alone or with up to three friends. You need to give commands to settlers, extract...
Adventure, Simulation, Isometric, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 6 January 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
7.1/10
A co-op game where characters explore a mysterious planet torn apart by repeated disasters. It is possible to build a complex industrial system to extract...
Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Survival, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Construction, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy
Game released: PC → 29 March 2023
Players:
8/10
The game takes place in the fantasy world of "shorties" who are trying to expand the territory of their peoples in a wild, unforgiving and ever-changing world...
Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, City Building, Strategy, Survival, Zombies, Sandbox, Business / Management
Game released: PC → 11 April 2024
Players:
6.8/10
The world is engulfed by a virus that turns those infected into aggressive and powerful monsters. Settlements are deserted and resources are scarce. The player...
Action, Online, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 26 October 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
6.9/10
Remaster of the survival simulator ARK: Survival Evolved. The updated version of the game is created on the Unreal Engine 5 with support for ray tracing, Nanite...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Open world, Crafting, Indie
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2023; Game released: PC → 14 April 2025
Players:
7.9/10
Metacritic:
66/100
The game takes place on Earth destroyed by an environmental disaster. To survive and understand what happened, the hero collects resources, fights dangers, searches...
Sandbox, Survival, Isometric, Simulation, Open world, Crafting, Exploration, Adventure, Construction
Game released: PC → 25 May 2023
The player creates his own world from pieces and then explores it. More than a hundred varieties of biomes and their combinations are available. To survive, you can...
Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Space
Early Access: PC → 10 May 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
8.1/10
A space sandbox in which the player builds his own base on Mars. You can grow crops and produce oxygen. Construction requires various resources that can be obtained...
Action, Shooter, Simulation, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Zombies
Early Access: PC → 24 October 2025; Game in development: PC → 2029
Players:
8.8/10
Multiplayer sandbox with survival elements and an open world. In the near future, an apocalypse has occurred: zombies roam the Earth, most people have died, and...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting, Procedural generation
Early Access: PC → 17 March 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
6.6/10
A cooperative role-playing sandbox, the action of which takes place among islands floating in the sky. Players explore endless procedurally generated locations...
Action, Shooter, Strategy, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Survival
Early Access: PC → 15 May 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
7/10
Cepheus Protocol is a tactical real-time strategy game with first-person shooter elements. The Pangu virus has been released in San Francisco, turning thousands of...
Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, City Building, Construction, Crafting
Game released: PC → 3 April 2026
Metacritic:
73/100
A post-apocalyptic city-building simulator in which any building can collapse. As the leader of a small group of survivors, you will have to build a vertical city...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Survival
Game released: PC → 28 May 2019
Players:
8.7/10
Metacritic:
70/100
Pestilence is a remake of the 2005 open-world thriller. Three very different doctors are trying to save an unusual steppe city from an epidemic of a deadly disease...
