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2018PC86 % positive39.99 €

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.

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

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2017PEGI 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable91 % positivefree

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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.

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7 Days to Die

  • Systems like Rust

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.

Hurtworld

  • Systems like Rust

A punishing first-person multiplayer survival shooter where you gather, craft and fight other players and the environment to stay alive. Its survival progression stays demanding well after your basic needs are covered.

Ark: Survival Evolved

  • Systems like Rust

Stranded on an island full of dinosaurs, you gather resources, build bases and tame prehistoric beasts to ride and fight alongside you. On multiplayer servers it becomes a harsh, time-hungry struggle of tribes, raids and alliances.

Ark: Survival Ascended

  • Systems like Rust

You are stranded on islands full of dinosaurs, taming and riding prehistoric beasts, building bases and surviving alone or with tribes of other players. The Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the huge sandbox world look far more impressive.

H1Z1

  • Systems like Rust

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.

Miscreated

  • Systems like Rust

An unforgiving online survival sandbox where you scavenge, build bases and fight mutants, harsh weather and other players in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

DayZ

  • Systems like Rust

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.

Just Survive

  • Systems like Rust

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

Palworld

  • Systems like Rust

Palworld mashes creature collecting together with survival crafting and base building. Captured Pals fight beside you, carry you across the islands or toil away in your factory while you explore an open world armed with guns. Its cheeky, slightly macabre humor gives the whole thing a flavor of its own.

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