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251 games like Project Zomboid

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01 Core Keeper Cover

2024 · Linux, Switch, Switch 2

Core Keeper

71%

Explore an endless cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

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Project Zomboid

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode
Trade-offs

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02 7 Days to Die Cover

2024 · Linux, Mac, PC

7 Days to Die

66%

Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. It presents combat, crafting, looting,...

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Project Zomboid

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

03 Valheim Cover

2026 · Linux, Mac, Switch 2

Valheim

58%

Valheim is an open-world survival and exploration game set in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Playing alone or with up to nine other players, you explore dangerous biomes, gather resources, craft weapons and armour, build Viking set...

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Project Zomboid

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

04 Factorio Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Factorio

57%

You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it work...

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Project Zomboid

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

05 Rain World Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Rain World

55%

Rain World is a survival platformer set in an abandoned industrial environment ravaged by a shattered ecosystem. Bone-crushingly intense rains pound the surface, making life as we know it almost impossible. The creatures in this world hibernate most of the tim...

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Project Zomboid

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

06 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

54%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

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Project Zomboid

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

07 Starbound Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Starbound

54%

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite universe… In Starbound, you cr...

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Project Zomboid

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

08 Don't Starve Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Don't Starve

52%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

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Project Zomboid

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 Unturned Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unturned

52%

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

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Project Zomboid

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel
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10 Skyhill Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Skyhill

51%

Skyhill is a roguelike story about staying alive when there is no reason to. You are a resident of Skyhill hotel,who survived biological catastrophe. Goal - is to get out of your penthouse in search of other people and salvation. But all elevators in the build...

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Project Zomboid

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

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11 Captain of Industry Cover

2022 · PC

Captain of Industry

51%

Factory construction and management simulator. Alone with your loyal crew, expand a small colony of survivors into an industrial empire! From an abandoned island to vast factories, research labs, and space program. Build, mine, farm, shape terrain, explore and...

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Project Zomboid

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

48%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrow...

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Project Zomboid

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

13 Minecraft: Java Edition Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, PC

Minecraft: Java Edition

46%

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining...

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Project Zomboid

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Split screen Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 Dying Light Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Dying Light

44%

Dying Light is a first-person, action survival horror game set in a vast and dangerous open world. During the day, players traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and crafting weapons to defend a...

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Project Zomboid

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

15 Pokémon Go Cover

2016 · Android, iOS

Pokémon Go

42%

Pokémon Go is an augmented reality mobile game that uses GPS to let players locate, capture, train, and battle Pokémon in real-world locations. Players explore their physical surroundings to find PokéStops for items, battle at Gyms for team control, participat...

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Project Zomboid

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Role-playing Game feel ✓ Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

16 Fortnite Cover

2020 · Android, Mac, Switch

Fortnite

41%

Fortnite is a free-to-play online game where you and your friends can create, play and battle. Be the last player standing in Battle Royale and Zero Build, experience a concert or live event, or discover over a million creator-made games, including racing, par...

Your match for

Project Zomboid

41% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Split screen Mode
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No description available from IGDB

17 The Sims 4 Cover

2014 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Sims 4

41%

Unleash your imagination and create a unique world of Sims that's an expression of you! Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes, and much more with The Sims 4. Life, and Sims, are yours to control. Customize your unique Sims, design their homes &...

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Project Zomboid

41% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Role-playing Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

18 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Cover
41%

The Vault Dweller is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California in order to retrieve a water chip to replace the broken chip of Vault 13, their home, which they are the first person to ever leave. The player will engage in Western RPG character building and...

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Project Zomboid

41% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Cover
41%

Escape to a deserted island and create your own paradise as you explore, create, and customize in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Your island getaway has a wealth of natural resources that can be used to craft everything from tools to creature comforts. You can...

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Project Zomboid

41% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Split screen Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
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20 Bloodborne Cover

2015 · PS4

Bloodborne

40%

An action RPG in which the player embodies a Hunter who, after being transfused with the mysterious blood local to the city of Yharnam, sets off into a "night of the Hunt", an extended night in which Hunters may phase in and out of dream and reality in order t...

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Project Zomboid

40% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Challenging Game feel
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