Survival
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Best Games in the Survival genre for PC
Adventure, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world
Game released: PC → 5 March 2024
Survival in an open world with a focus on base building, exploring the island, and gradually uncovering its story. Players need to gather resources, create tools...
Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation
Early Access: PC → 12 December 2019; Game released: PC → 16 October 2025
Players:
6.8/10
A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...
Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Survival, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Construction, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy
Game released: PC → 29 March 2023
Players:
7.7/10
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...
Role-playing game, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Sandbox, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting
Game released: PC → 9 August 2023
Players:
7.7/10
Conditionally free survival game with crafting, building, anime-style graphics, and a large open world, similar to a mix of Genshin Impact and Valheim. The...
Survival, First-person view, Shooter, Construction, Crafting, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Simulation
Early Access: PC → 25 August 2022; Game released: PC → 5 June 2023
Players:
7.7/10
A survival simulator in which a large group of people are marooned on a desert island where they try to survive. There are no rules, but there are advantages for...
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...
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:
7.5/10
A cooperative role-playing sandbox, the action of which takes place among islands floating in the sky. Players explore endless procedurally generated locations...
Simulation, First-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Game released: PC → 8 June 2026
Metacritic:
65/100
A survival game set in a future world where civilization has risen into the sky and settled on floating islands. Here, technology coexists with nature, and daily...
Action, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Steampunk, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 20 February 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
7.1/10
A cooperative action game about traveling through fantasy worlds, through which you can move through mystical portals. The main goal is to reach Nightingale, the...
Shooter, Survival, Simulation, Crafting, Open world, Adventure, Action, First-person view, Combat robots
Early Access: PC → 14 February 2023; Game released: PC → 17 April 2023
Karagon is a post-apocalyptic survival game with a first-person view, an open world, robot riding and crafting. The game takes you to a ruined city filled with...
Adventure, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox, First-person view, Action, Space, Science fiction, Survival, Crafting
Game released: PC → 14 May 2025
Players:
8.2/10
A colorful open-world sandbox in which the player confronts a galactic infection called the Red Darkness, which threatens the entire galaxy. As you progress, you...
Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Medieval era, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 25 February 2026; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
5.8/10
The events of the game unfold in the gloomy world, tormented by plague and bandits. Players need to develop a settlement and manage its inhabitants. You can send...
Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Indie
Game in development: PC → 2026
Anticipation Rating:
10/10
Atmospheric action focused on exploration and storyline, set on the abandoned surface of Earth a century after humanity left for megacity towers above toxic clouds...
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:
7.8/10
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...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Virtual Reality (VR), Science fiction, Survival, Open world, Survival horror
Early Access: PC → 26 August 2024; Game released: PC → 22 August 2025
Players:
9/10
A game for virtual reality glasses, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. The main character explores locations around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant...
Action, Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Procedural generation
Early Access: PC → 20 July 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
5.5/10
A cooperative survival game set in an open world, taking place on the frozen exomoon Inara. The only safe place here is the constantly moving train, which has...
Adventure, Action, Role-playing game, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy, Third-person view, Survival
Game released: PC → 24 October 2023
Players:
8.9/10
Metacritic:
59/100
A cooperative action game for survival in the fantasy universe of The Lord of the Rings. The Dwarves embark on a dangerous journey to reclaim their legendary...
Adventure, Simulation, Sandbox, Trains, Indie, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Game in development: PC → 2026
Anticipation Rating:
9.8/10
An open-world survival simulator where players customize their own train and travel through different locations. Gamers start with nothing and gradually build a...
Adventure, Horror, Online, First-person view, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Demons, Detective
Early Access: PC → 28 July 2022; Game released: PC → 24 July 2025
Players:
6.6/10
Ghost Watchers is a co-op survival horror game with puzzles and demons. Many abandoned houses are haunted. These could be the souls of suicides or demons. This...
Action, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Open world, Role-playing game, Horror, Construction, Crafting, Isometric
Game released: PC → 29 February 2024
Players:
9/10
Metacritic:
71/100
Action-adventure game about zombies with an open world in the post-apocalypse genre. What's better than a shambling undead that protects you, builds barricades, and...
Shooter, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 11 October 2023; Game released: PC → 30 October 2025
Players:
6.4/10
The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by mutant zombies and gangs. In another reality, the world has been conquered by a tyrannical empire, but...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Sandbox, Survival, Comedy, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 26 July 2024; Game released: PC → 3 April 2026
Players:
8.7/10
An action RPG survival game inspired by Slavic myths and legends. In the game you can choose the path of a sorcerer or a hero, meet mythological characters like...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world
Game released: PC → 28 May 2019
Players:
8.8/10
Metacritic:
70/100
A remake of a thriller set in an open world, released in 2005. Three very different doctors try to save an unusual steppe town from an epidemic of a deadly disease...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 5 November 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
7.9/10
An ancient civilization once ruled the island of Luminora. They learned to extract the life force from living beings, but this led to a curse that plunged the...