Games like Next Day: Survival
If Next Day: Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Miscreated, Will To Live Online and Deadside — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its community driven chaos, high risk loot runs and ironic hidden gem status. 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.
Get personalized picks →Next Day: Survival is a multiplayer open-world survival RPG set in an imaginary Eastern European country, developed by SOFF Games and published by Last Level. Released in 2018 at a price of $9.99, the game tasks players with completing various missions, developing their character through skill-grinding, and engaging in player-versus-player combat while scavenging and hoarding loot. The experience combines optional base-building with post-apocalyptic crafting mechanics and supports both singleplayer and online cooperative play. Players describe the atmosphere as tense and stressful, with unpredictable animal encounters adding to the unsettling mood, while reviewers note that the game has cultivated a reputation as an ironic hidden gem among its community despite its rough edges. The title runs at a long difficulty curve designed for extended sit-down sessions and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Next Day: Survival: Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
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Miscreated
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Top pick for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Will To Live Online
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Second-strongest match for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Deadside
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Plains of Pain
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Ranked #4 for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: 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.
HumanitZ
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Ranked #5 for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Next Day: Survival.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Last Oasis
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Shares a stressful mood with Next Day: Survival.
Ranked #6 for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Rust
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Shares a stressful mood with Next Day: Survival.
Ranked #7 for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Survarium
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Shares a tense mood with Next Day: Survival.
Ranked #8 for Next Day: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Next Day: Survival.
Survarium is a post-apocalyptic online FPS game. If you are looking for a shooter where skills matter, look no further! The opposing players and deadly anomalies will never stop you on the way to victory, right? Then start playing now for free!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Next Day: Survival
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
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Shares an unsettling mood with Next Day: Survival.
Reviewers of Next Day: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Next Day: Survival.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
DayZ
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Shares a stressful mood with Next Day: Survival.
Reviewers of Next Day: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Next Day: Survival.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
SCUM
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Shares a stressful mood with Next Day: Survival.
Reviewers of Next Day: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Stalker
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Reviewers of Next Day: Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Next Day: Survival.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Next Day: Survival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Next Day: Survival.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Next Day: Survival.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Next Day: Survival.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Next Day: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Next Day: Survival.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Next Day: Survival.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Next Day: 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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Next Day: 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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Next Day: Survival.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Next Day: 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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Next Day: Survival.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Next Day: Survival
- Does Next Day: Survival run on Steam Deck?
- Next Day: Survival is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Next Day: Survival cost?
- Next Day: Survival is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Next Day: Survival have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Next Day: Survival supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Next Day: Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Next Day: Survival are Miscreated, Will To Live Online, Deadside.
- Who developed Next Day: Survival?
- Next Day: Survival was developed by SOFF Games and published by Last Level.
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