Games like Survive the Nights
If Survive the Nights is your kind of game, the closest matches are ORMOD: Directive, 7 Days to Die and Rain Station Z — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fun initial gameplay, unique vehicle mechanics and dark. 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 →Survive the Nights is a challenging post-apocalyptic survival game set in an open-world sandbox environment. Developed by a2z Interactive, the multiplayer experience supports online co-op play where players scavenge resources, craft tools, and fortify bases against zombie threats. The game features vehicle mechanics for traversal and transportation across the harsh landscape. Players describe the atmosphere as dark and stressful, with reviewers highlighting the unique vehicle mechanics and fun initial gameplay as notable hooks. Currently holding a 68% positive rating from over 2,000 Steam reviews, the game is marked as playable on Steam Deck. Priced at $19.99 USD and released in 2025, the experience offers a medium-length session suitable for those seeking a challenging cooperative survival adventure.
About Survive the Nights: 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?
Players who liked Survive the Nights also play
Steam players who put hours into Survive the Nights 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.
ORMOD: Directive
WHY THIS
Top pick for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Shape your own survival experience in an infinite open-world sandbox. Customize world difficulty, rules, and playstyle. Play solo, co-op, or on 24/7 MMO-style servers across PvP, PvE, Hardcore, or Creative modes as you build, automate, fight, and survive. The choice is yours.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Survive the Nights.
Second-strongest match for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Rain Station Z
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Multiplayer Open World Zombie Survival. The acid rain never stops, neither do the dead. Survive the apocalypse alone or with friends.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Shares survival gameplay with Survive the Nights.
Ranked #4 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
SCUM
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Survive the Nights.
Ranked #5 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
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.
Contagion
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Survive the Nights.
Ranked #6 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Plains of Pain
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Ranked #7 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
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.
VEIN
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Survive the Nights.
Ranked #8 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Survive the Nights.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Survive the Nights at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Survive the Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survive the Nights.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Survive the Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survive the Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Survive the Nights.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survive the Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survive the Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Survive the Nights.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Survive the Nights.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Survive the Nights.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Survive the Nights.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Nights.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Nights.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about Survive the Nights
- Does Survive the Nights run on Steam Deck?
- Survive the Nights 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 Survive the Nights cost?
- Survive the Nights is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Survive the Nights have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Survive the Nights supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Survive the Nights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survive the Nights are ORMOD: Directive, 7 Days to Die, Rain Station Z.
- Who developed Survive the Nights?
- Survive the Nights was developed by a2z Interactive.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Survive the Nights.
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