The top results based on the latest update are State of Decay: Year-One [Score: 4.1], Survivalist [Score: 3.6] and State of Decay 2 [Score: 3.4].
The top rated games you can find here are Left 4 Dead 2 [SteamPeek Rating: 12.3] ranked #208, Unturned [SteamPeek Rating: 11.8] ranked #100 and The Forest [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #70.
Also don't forget to check the newest releasesSurvival | Classic [Release date: 2021-01-22] ranked #144, LURE: FREE [Release date: 2021-01-20] ranked #149 and Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城 [Release date: 2021-01-12] ranked #189.
While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Fallout 4 [SteamPeek Rating: 9.3] ranked #52, The Wild Eight [SteamPeek Rating: 6.2] ranked #54 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record [SteamPeek Rating: 5.7] ranked #55.
State of Decay
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The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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Release date: 27 Apr, 2015
Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.
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Release date: 30 Jan, 2015
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
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Release date: 2 Jul, 2015
Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Open World Survival CraftZombiesSurvivalBase BuildingSandboxCraftingOpen WorldSingleplayerEarly AccessTop-DownPost-apocalypticSimulationActionRPGFemale ProtagonistThird PersonExplorationIndieAtmosphericGore
Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, a massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die?
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Release date: 5 Sep, 2014
Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Nether is a unique, first-person, multiplayer urban survival experience. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Nether forces players to make life-saving decisions in a fast-paced struggle against players and the environment. Join tribes, hold territory, scavenge, craft, trade and loot your way to stay alive.
Survive the post apocalypse in Wasteland Survival - the last shelter for survivors on earth! The first thing you need learn is survival. Build home. Craft & Upgrade weapons to kill hordes of zombies, Hunt & Explore with your dog. Gather resources and PVP Plunder... Can you stop the zombie apocalypse?
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Release date: 8 Sep, 2016
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Release date: 20 Nov, 2014
Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.
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Release date: 29 Aug, 2014
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. It's the story of Mike who's survived for 10 years since the outbreak.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerZombiesPost-apocalypticCraftingMassively MultiplayerPvPActionCo-opSandboxEarly AccessSimulationFPSFirst-PersonHorrorIndieWalking SimulatorSingleplayer
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – standalone prequel for the acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which tells you story about the Clear Sky group, that want to research the Zone and understand it better.
Open WorldAtmosphericPost-apocalypticFPSSurvivalActionFirst-PersonRPGShooterSingleplayerSurvival HorrorAdventureHorrorMultiplayerSci-fiClassicModdableZombiesInventory ManagementSandbox
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.
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Release date: 31 May, 2016
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.
