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Games like The Front

2025PC66 % positive19.50 €

An open-world survival shooter with crafting and base building, where you play a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop a tyrannical, relic-powered empire from rising. Gathering resources, building and gunfights drive the experience.

  • Building and crafting
  • Open world
  • Resources and survival
  • Playing together in co-op

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In short: Games like The Front

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

Similar in what way?

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

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Games where this is clearly part of it are left out, no matter how well the rest fits.

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Empyrion: Galactic Survival

97 %Match

2020PEGI 16PC, Steam Deck playable78 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about The Front: building and crafting, scarce resources and survival as well as an open world.

A space sandbox survival game where you build your own ships, stations and planetary bases while exploring planets and deep space. Gathering resources, defending your bases and playing solo or with friends are at the core.

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Ark: Survival Ascended

Building and crafting

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.

Ark: Survival Evolved

Building and crafting

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.

Vein

Building and crafting

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

Palworld

Building and crafting

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.

StarRupture

Building and crafting

A first-person survival base-builder on an alien planet: extract resources, automate industrial production lines and fend off hordes of alien monsters, solo or in co-op.

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.

7 Days to Die

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.

Unturned

Building and crafting

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.

Voidtrain

Building and crafting

You build and expand a train that travels through strange dimensions, gathering resources along the way to craft weapons and upgrade your carriages. This survival adventure can be played solo or with up to four players.

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