Games like Project Zomboid
If you like Project Zomboid (survival, zombies and simulation), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Don't Starve Together
- In common: long sessions and co-op
When you have friends and an afternoon ahead to survive together in a world that wants you dead.
The Long Dark
- In common: long sessions and management
- Difference: less co-op
When you want slow-paced, atmospheric survival, the kind that makes you feel the cold.
Necesse
- In common: long sessions and co-op
- Difference: easier
When you want a long playthrough, solo or with friends, beating bosses one by one while your village grows.
Palworld
- In common: long sessions and co-op
- Difference: easier
When you want a long afternoon of exploring, capturing creatures and watching your base grow, ideally with friends.
Raft
- In common: long sessions and co-op
- Difference: easier
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
Satisfactory
- In common: long sessions and management
- Difference: more creative
When you have a long afternoon and want to build something huge and functional, solo or with friends.
Terraria
- In common: long sessions and co-op
- Difference: less management
When you want a game for many sessions that mixes exploration, building and combat at your own pace.
Don't Starve
- In common: long sessions and a challenge
- Difference: less co-op
When you have an afternoon ahead and fancy a survival challenge where every run teaches you something.
Valheim
- In common: long sessions and co-op
- Difference: less management
When you have a long afternoon, ideally with friends: building the village together is one of the most satisfying things in the genre.
Core Keeper
- In common: long sessions and co-op
- Difference: easier
When you want an exploration and building adventure at your own pace, ideally with friends.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Project Zomboid
This is how you died. You survive a zombie apocalypse in Kentucky with a detailed simulation: hunger, injuries, depression, power cuts and taps running dry. Every game is a survival story.
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