Survival Games

Resource management and living from day to day are staples of this recently blooming genre. Survival games focus on their players doing everything they can to get by in different conditions with varying levels of danger day by day, hour by hour, area by area.

  1. Minecraft icon
     1000 likes

    Venture into endless 3D worlds where creativity meets exploration and survival. Craft, build, and explore to your heart’s content against ongoing challenges.

    98 Minecraft alternatives
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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • FreeBSD
    • Playstation
    • Fire TV
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
    • NetBSD
    • Meta Quest
    • OpenBSD
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    Top Minecraft Features

    1.  Multiplayer
    2.  Moddable
    3.  Base building
    4.  Sandbox
    5.  Blocks
    6.  Skin customization
    7.  Creation mode
    8.  Crafting
    9.  Single player
    10.  Player vs Player
    11.  Exploration
    12.  Procedurally generated
    13.  Community-based
    14.  Bim
    15.  Achievements Supported
    16.  Player vs Enviroment
    17.  Online co-op
    18.  Ad-free
    19.  Endless gameplay
  2. Palworld icon
     7 likes

    Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!.

    16 Palworld alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
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    Palworld Features

    1.  Multiplayer
    2.  Building game
  3. VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) icon
     22 likes

    Survive, farm, build, explore, play with friends, and do much more. Inspired by Minecraft, pushing beyond.

    52 VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) alternatives
    Minetest looks almost exactly like Minecraft.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Minetest
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    Top VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) Features

    1.  Procedurally generated
    2.  Minecraft
    3.  Single player
    4.  Sandbox
    5.  Moddable
    6.  Multiplayer
    7.  Endless gameplay
    8.  Player vs Enviroment
    9.  Blocks
    10.  Mods
    11.  Building game
  4. No Man's Sky icon
     31 likes

    No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.

    21 No Man's Sky alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
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    No Man's Sky Features

    1.  Procedurally generated
    2.  Multiplayer
    3.  Endless gameplay
    4.  Online co-op
    5.  Single player
    6.  Player vs Enviroment
  5. LEGO Fortnite icon
     5 likes

    Drop into a world of unlimited imagination – and llamas – with the LEGO Fortnite game! What will you build?

    14 LEGO Fortnite alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Epic Games Store
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
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    LEGO Fortnite Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Multiplayer
    3.  Player vs Player
    4.  Free to play
    5.  Building game
  6. Dwarf Fortress icon
     82 likes

    Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy simulator. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is procedurally generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, multitude of towns, bodies...

    25 Dwarf Fortress alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Dwarf Fortress Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Building game
    3.  Infinite hierarchical depth
    4.  Terraforming
    5.  Battle simulation
    6.  Squad based
  7. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl icon
     38 likes

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter video game by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007. It features an alternate reality theme, where a second nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in the near...

    19 STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl Features

    1.  Moddable
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Player vs Enviroment
    4.  Single player
  8. Vintage Story icon
     10 likes

    Vintage Story is a game about innovation and exploration. It thrusts the player into a carefully-generated semi-autonomous world and challenges them to survive and overcome the natural and unknown threats of their new home.

    19 Vintage Story alternatives
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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Vintage Story Features

    1.  Exploration
    2.  Crafting
    3.  Multiplayer
    4.  Single player
    5.  Moddable
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Endless gameplay
  9. Yenemy icon
     2 likes

    Yenemy is a new free browser multiplayer top-down view PvP hardcore survival IO game. The game features exploring, gathering resources, crafting, building a shelter and protecting fellow clanmates from other players.

    7 Yenemy alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Yenemy Features

    1.  Online co-op
    2.  Achievements Supported
    3.  Player vs Enviroment
    4.  Endless gameplay
    5.  Player vs Player
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Multiplayer
    8.  Building game
  10. Qanga icon
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    Seamless open-world space sandbox with exploration of planets, moons, and stations. Engage in contracts, combat, and base building across the cosmos.

    18 Qanga alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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    Qanga Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Single player
    3.  Online co-op
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Multiplayer
    6.  Player vs Player
    7.  Achievements Supported
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  Player vs Enviroment
    10.  Sci-fi
  11. Metro icon
     22 likes

    Metro is a survival horror first-person shooter video game series, based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky.

    43 Metro alternatives
    Metro Exodus

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
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    Metro Features

    1.  Single player
  12. Banished icon
     19 likes

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.

    45 Banished alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
    • Steam
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    Banished Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Logistics
    3.  Production Chains
    4.  Medieval
  13. Grounded icon
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    The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?.

    4 Grounded alternatives
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    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
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    Grounded Features

    1.  Multiplayer
    2.  Achievements Supported
    3.  Player vs Enviroment
    4.  Single player
    5.  Online co-op
    6.  Building game
    7.  Base building
  14. Fallout Shelter icon
     9 likes

    Based in the Fallout universe, Fallout Shelter has players building the perfect vault to protect dwellers from the apocalyptic Wasteland. Select from a variety of modern-day rooms to turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the...

    6 Fallout Shelter alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Xbox
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    Fallout Shelter Features

    1.  Single player
  15. Unturned icon
     16 likes

    Unturned is a sandbox game in the emerging multiplayer apocalypse survival genre. Rather than focusing on being an MMO it provides players with easy systems to sit down and survive the zombie infestation with their friends.

    19 Unturned alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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    Top Unturned Features

    1.  Multiplayer
    2.  Player vs Player
    3.  Guns
    4.  Multiplayer Survival
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  Online co-op
    7.  Endless gameplay
    8.  Single player
    9.  Moddable
    10.  Minecraft
    11.  Location-based
    12.  Zombie Game
    13.  Free to play