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Games like The Risen Survival

If The Risen Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ultimate Multiplayer Survival Engine, Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2 and Junk Survivor — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About The Risen Survival: The Risen Survival is an open-world survival game featuring intense PvE & PvP, base building, crafting, and relentless zombies. Gather resources, expand your base, fight for valuable loot, and compete with other players in a persistent online world

ActionIndieAdventureSimulationWindows · Linuxby Black Engine
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Steam players who put hours into The Risen Survival also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Ultimate Multiplayer Survival Engine

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    The only goal is survival. Explore a dangerous world, gather resources, craft equipment, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Whether alone or with friends, every decision could mean the difference between thriving and losing everything.

    ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  2. Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    The dead won. Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2 is an open-world survival game: your past life shapes your second one – a nurse survives one way, a cop another. Scavenge, craft, build, farm, alone or with friends. The dead don't starve, don't tire, don't freeze. You do. Reach the Terminus, or die trying.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Junk Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Journey Of Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Night of the Dead

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Plains of Pain

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Survive the Nights

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Risen Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Risen Survival.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Risen Survival.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Risen Survival.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Risen Survival.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Risen Survival

Does The Risen Survival have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — The Risen Survival supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to The Risen Survival?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Risen Survival are Ultimate Multiplayer Survival Engine, Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2, Junk Survivor.
Who developed The Risen Survival?
The Risen Survival was developed by Black Engine.

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