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2025PC51 % positive25.49 €

Dreadzone is a survival shooter set in a lethal quarantine zone where you scavenge, craft tools, build shelter, and fight off animals, zombies, mutants, and other desperate survivors.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Resources and survival
  • Building and crafting
  • Open world

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7 Days to Die

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

Brings what grabs you about Dreadzone: a post-apocalyptic setting, scarce resources and survival as well as building and crafting.

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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Sons of the Forest

Post-apocalyptic setting

Stranded on a remote island, you craft, build and fight to survive while cannibals and mutants hunt you. Play solo or in co-op, delve into dark caves, and fortify a base, with AI companions helping along the way.

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.

State of Decay

Post-apocalyptic setting

A zombie survival game in an open world where you build up a home base, scavenge supplies and manage a roster of survivors with their own skills. Death is permanent for fallen characters, which gives every decision weight.

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.

DayZ

Open world

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.

State of Decay 2

Post-apocalyptic setting

An open-world zombie survival game where you build and manage a community of survivors, scavenge supplies and upgrade your base. Permanent death for characters gives every decision weight, and you can play solo or in co-op.

As One We Survive

Post-apocalyptic setting

A top-down survival game set in a post-pandemic, post-apocalyptic America where you play a father scavenging, crafting and fighting to find help for his sick daughter.

The Forest

Dread and tension

After a plane crash you build shelters and traps in a dense forest while tribes of cannibals stalk and attack you. Creepy mutant-filled caves and the mystery of your missing son drive the exploration, and it's best played with friends in co-op.

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