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Games like Aftermath

2015PC49 % positive

A zombie survival sandbox set in a huge open world where you scavenge, craft, build bases and fend off the undead, alone or with friends.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Resources and survival
  • Building and crafting

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In short: Games like Aftermath

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Aftermath special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Best match

7 Days to Die

96 %Match

2024USK 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck verified87 % positive43.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Aftermath: a post-apocalyptic setting, a sandbox with your own goals as well as scarce resources and survival.

A zombie survival sandbox built on crafting, looting, base building and skill progression, where every seventh night a massive horde tests your fortifications. Played solo or in co-op, it blends first-person shooting with tower-defense tension.

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Unturned

Post-apocalyptic setting

A free-to-play zombie survival sandbox with blocky low-poly visuals where you scavenge, craft and build bases across large maps, teaming up with or betraying other players. A huge modding and workshop scene keeps it endlessly replayable.

Project Zomboid

Post-apocalyptic setting

An unforgiving zombie survival sandbox where you loot, build, craft and train skills until your inevitable death. Its deep simulation and highly customisable rules turn every run into a personal survival story, solo or with friends.

Vein

Post-apocalyptic setting

A post-apocalyptic survival sandbox where you scavenge supplies, search abandoned buildings and defend your base, solo or with friends. Still in active development.

H1Z1

Post-apocalyptic setting

H1Z1 is a zombie survival shooter in a large post-apocalyptic world where many players scavenge, form alliances and fight each other. It was later split into Just Survive and the battle royale spin-off King of the Kill.

Just Survive

Post-apocalyptic setting

A multiplayer zombie survival game set in an open world, centered on scavenging, crafting and the constant threat of other players.

Rust

Post-apocalyptic setting

A brutal multiplayer survival sandbox where you spawn with nothing, gather resources, build bases and fight other players to stay alive. Raids, betrayals and clan wars make every wipe unpredictable.

DayZ

Post-apocalyptic setting

Unforgiving multiplayer survival across a vast zombie-infested countryside where hunger, sickness and above all other players are the real threat. Every encounter can turn into an alliance or a betrayal, and death means starting over from nothing.

CastleMiner Z

Building and crafting

A blocky sandbox survival game set in an endless world: you build, craft weapons and tools, and fight off zombies and other monsters alone or with friends.

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