Games Like 7 Days to Die Similar Survival & Open World Games like 7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die is described as 'In the year 2034 nuclear attacks have decimated the Earth and the remaining population is infected by an unknown virus. The infected die within 7 days and soon reanimate becoming blood-thirsty zombies. No one believed it; nobody expected it and nothing can stop it!' and is a Survival Game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to 7 Days to Die for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Mac, Linux and Xbox apps. The best 7 Days to Die alternative is Rust (Game). It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Unturned or starve.io. Other 7 Days to Die like games are Metro, Left 4 Dead, The Forest and State of Decay.

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  1. Metro icon
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    Metro is a survival horror first-person shooter video game series, based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky.

    44 Metro alternatives

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    Comments about Metro as an Alternative to 7 Days to Die
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    Because metro is story based with a plot, 7d2d is survival open-world game. And there are no zombies in Metro series.

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    • This alternative is disputed. Metro is a legitimate 7 Days to Die alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Metro is Paid and Proprietary7 Days to Die is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. Left 4 Dead icon
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    Left 4 Dead (abbreviated as L4D) is a cooperative first-person shooter arcade-style video game.

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    Comments about Left 4 Dead as an Alternative to 7 Days to Die
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    Only thing in common is zombies. the gameplay is different

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    completly different game style! 7days is openworld, sandbox, while l4d has nothing like this!

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    • This alternative is disputed. Left 4 Dead is a legitimate 7 Days to Die alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Left 4 Dead is Paid and Proprietary7 Days to Die is also Paid and Proprietary
  3. The Forest icon
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    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

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  4. Unturned icon
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    Unturned is a sandbox game in the emerging multiplayer apocalypse survival genre. Rather than focusing on being an MMO it provides players with easy systems to sit down and survive the zombie infestation with their friends.

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  5. The dead rose, and civilization fell. Now your small group of survivors must scavenge an open world for resources and build a home base that can withstand hordes of zombies in this action-strategy-simulation hybrid. Supports up to four networked players.

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  6. DayZ icon
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    The post-soviet country of Chernarus is struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse.

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  7. As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements.

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  8. Alan Wake icon
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    A Psychological Action Thriller

    When the wife of the best-selling writer Alan Wake disappears on their vacation, his search turns up pages from a thriller he doesn’t even remember writing. A dark presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Wake to the brink of sanity.

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  9. Dying Light icon
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    Dying Light is an open world first person action-adventure survival horror video game developed by Polish video game developer Techland and published by Warner Bros.

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  10. The game begins in 1923, after World War I veteran Patrick Galloway receives an urgent letter from his friend Jeremiah Covenant. Covenant, well aware of Galloway's reputation for dealing with occult matters, is in failing health and raves about a curse that has destroyed his...

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  11. Silent Hill icon
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    Silent Hill is a survival horror video game series consisting of eight installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team...

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