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2025PC87 % positive20.49 €

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

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

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In short: Games like Vein

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Vein 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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7 Days to Die

98 %Match

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

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

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

Building and crafting

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.

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.

Once Human

Building and crafting

An open-world survival game set in a bizarre post-apocalyptic world where you gather resources, build bases and shoot mutated monsters, solo or with friends. It stands out for blending base building, loot-shooter style progression and surreal apocalyptic horror.

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.

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.

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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