Games like Project Zomboid
Looking for games like Project Zomboid? indielist surfaces 12 similar indie games by shared genre and Steam tags, ranked by review count. Project Zomboid is a indie game from 2013; the closest matches share its tags and audience. The top match by reviews is The Forest with 570,988 Steam reviews. Each game links to a white-box sales estimate you can audit. Matches are computed from tracked Steam data, not editorial opinion.
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The Forest
2018 · Action
570,988 reviews · 96% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen World
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into horror.
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Stranded Deep
2022 · Adventure
43,247 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into first-person.
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Tinkerlands
2025 · Action
3,854 reviews · 86% positive
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Sandbox. Different: leans more into online co-op.
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Terraria
2011 · Action
1,216,769 reviews · 97% positive
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Sandbox. Different: leans more into pixel graphics.
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Rust
2018 · Action
1,140,437 reviews · 87% positive
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayer
Same: shares Survival and Crafting. Different: leans more into pvp.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
2017 · Action
579,234 reviews · 83% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into dinosaurs.
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Raft
2022 · Adventure
318,148 reviews · 93% positive
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival Craft
Same: shares Survival and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into base-building.
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Satisfactory
2024 · Adventure
228,423 reviews · 97% positive
Open WorldMultiplayerCrafting
Same: shares Open World and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into base-building.
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The Long Dark
2017 · Adventure
110,190 reviews · 89% positive
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftOpen World
Same: shares Survival and Open World Survival Craft. Different: leans more into exploration.
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Forager
2019 · Action
35,009 reviews · 90% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalCrafting
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into pixel graphics.
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Necesse
2025 · Action
23,154 reviews · 93% positive
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen World
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into pixel graphics.
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Craftopia
2020 · Action
18,201 reviews · 77% positive
Open WorldCraftingSurvival
Same: shares Open World and Crafting. Different: leans more into online co-op.
Frequently asked questions
- What games are like Project Zomboid?
- indielist matches 12 indie games to Project Zomboid by shared genre and Steam tags, led by The Forest (570,988 reviews). The list is ranked by review count.
- How are "games like Project Zomboid" chosen?
- By overlap of Steam tags and primary genre with Project Zomboid, weighted by review count as a popularity signal. It is computed from tracked data, not hand-picked, and updates as the catalog grows.