Gather, build and survive together
Survival games are made for co-op: one gathers wood, one builds the base, one explores – and at night you defend what you built together. This page shows games with a survival theme according to IGDB and co-op according to Steam, without pure shooters.
Most of these games run on one shared world for a long time. Agree on who hosts the server or world, so nobody has to play on without the others.
Our picks
Valheim
Viking survival with bosses as milestones. Building a longhouse together and setting sail is unforgettable.
Raft
Alone on a raft in the ocean – together it becomes a floating fortress. Sharks included.
Sons of the Forest
Survival horror on an island full of cannibals. Build together, be scared together.
Popular games: Survival
Sorted by rating and popularity. Player count and co-op types are listed on every game page.
Terraria
Platform · Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator
Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character an...
Valheim
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie
Valheim is an open-world survival and exploration game set in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology...
Factorio
Simulator · Strategy · Indie
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enem...
The Forest
Puzzle · Simulator · Adventure
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a...
Project Zomboid
Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Indie
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a st...
Starbound
Platform · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the...
Dying Light 2: Stay Human
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
The last great human settlement exists within an unforgiving, infected world. Exceptional agility and combat skills make...
Wasteland 3
Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS)
As the sole survivor of Team November, a Ranger squad dispatched to the icy Colorado wastes, you find this is a land of...
Raft
Simulator · Adventure · Indie
Raft throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous...
Elden Ring Nightreign
Role-playing (RPG) · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Elden Ring: Nightreign is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to offer players a new gaming e...
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Adventure
House of Ashes is the third installment in The Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of standalone cinematic horror games wh...
Astroneer
Simulator · Adventure · Indie
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your...
Grounded
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Explore...
R.E.P.O.
Strategy · Indie
R.E.P.O. (Retrieve, Extract and Profit Operation) is an online cooperative survival horror game for up to six players, d...
V Rising
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Awaken as a vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive...
Sons of the Forest
Simulator · Adventure · Indie
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build,...
Kingdom Two Crowns
Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy
Kingdom Two Crowns is a side-scrolling micro strategy game with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel a...
State of Decay 2
Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator
The next installment in the critically acclaimed “State of Decay” franchise immerses you in an all-new, multiplayer zomb...
Conan Exiles
Fighting · Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator
Conan Exiles is an online multiplayer survival game set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Enter a vast, open-world sa...
Subnautica 2
Adventure
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone...
Enshrouded
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the l...
How to Survive
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical · Adventure
You are shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive? Colle...
Dying Light: The Beast
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land is a new enhanced version of the game that includes the base game, all previously r...
Core Keeper
Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Adventure
Explore an endless cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build,...
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