Check out the top 11 games like Dead Island to satiate your horror needs.
Can't get enough of Dead Island? Have you played it so much that you can quote the dialogue or maybe you've just beaten it and you need a new fix? Now try out these top 11 games like Dead Island for a new and thrilling adventure.
11. Contagion (2014)
Developer: Monochrome LLC
Genre: Survival horror, FPS
Theme: Man vs zombie
We can't ever tire from zombie games. Keep the zombie vibe going strong with Contagion.
In this game players can choose from eight survivors to control in three types of game modes: survivor, strong hold, and player vs player. Each gaming session is unique with the game's randomization system. But get used to seeing tons of limbs and organs fly around, that's a staple.
Catch a flick and fight for your life all in the same night
Contagion gives players access to over 28 pieces of vital equipment that range from firearms, melee weapons, explosive, support items, and tools. Players need to do everything that they can in order to uphold their humanity. Regardless of what mode you are playing, when you die you become a zombie. Player zombies have a number of perks like spiriting and screaming, which gathers more zombies.
The game features multiplayer for up to four players and vs multiplayer for up to eight players. Another bonus for players is that all DLCs are free, regardless of when they are released. Contagion won't let players go so easily.
10. Survival: Postapocalypse Now (2015)
Developer: TB Games
Genre: Action, indie, massively multiplayer
Theme: Survival
Perhaps in the midst of all of your zombie gaming you did need a zombie break. It happens to the best of us. Don't stop your gaming sessions though and take on Survival: Postapocalypse Now because a life without gaming is sad indeed.
Survival: Postapocalypse Now is a multiplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Rather than facing off against zombies and mutants, you'll need to survive against wild animals and other players. Players will have a variety of weapons to pick from if they know where to look (hint, the factory) and vehicles if you feel like having a sweet ride across a post-apocalyptic world.
Stay toasty
Players are able to customize their character's model, so get those cool tattoos you were never able to get in real life. The game features food, liquid, and temperature systems that players need to keep in check. If you do die there's a 60 second respawn timer. While you wait to respawn you can cycle thorough other players and see what they're up to.
For the price of $6 dollars Survival: Postapocalypse Now is a bargain, even if it is still in early access.
Survival: Postapocalypse Now's official website
9. Project Zomboid (2013)
Developer: The Indie Stone
Genre: Zombie survival horror
Theme: Zombies vs humans
Who hasn't imagined how they'd do in a zombie outbreak? It's time to put yourself to the test in Project Zomboid. This game plays as one of the most realistic zombie scenarios out there. Players will need to do everything they can to delay their inevitable death for as long as possible, Project Zomboid is out to destroy the weak.
Though the game's interface looks simplistic, Project Zomboid is addicting and one of the most innovative post-apocalyptic zombie survival games out there. Players must flee from the thousands of zombies that roam the streets, explore the vast and ever growing map, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Just another day at the office
Project Zomboid plays as a massively customizable sandbox. Players will need to scavenge for supplies, farm, fish, cook, craft items, build barricades, and fight. This already hardcore game also focuses on realistic survival. Not only will players need to keep their health and hunger in check but they will need to withstand boredom, depression, illness, and addictions.
As this game is currently in early access, tons of more features will be coming. Players can expect new stories, meaningful and varied encounters with NPC survivors, an expansion of the city and countryside, a wilderness survival system, and many more items.
Project Zomboid's official website
8. Rust (2013)
Developer: Facepunch Studios
Genre: Action-adventure, survival
Theme: Man vs nature, man vs man
What's your first instinct when getting thrown out into the wild, survival. If not then you are gravely mistaken and will quickly meet an untimely end. If you know that you have what it takes to survive in the wilderness then Rust is for you.
In Rust you will need to overcome thirst, hunger, and the cold. You only begin with a rock, torch, and couple of bandages. Spending more than two nights out in the open will kill you. Immediately, players will realize that they need to kill for meat, scavenge, and build if they want to survive.
These zombies got some fine moves
Determine if you really trust those around you. Other players might want to kill you for your meat and loot, or perhaps you'll be a little hungry and need a fleshy human fix. Players can create alliances with other players and form a community if they wish. Just make sure that you're with those you can trust.
Crafting is essential to the game. Everything can be built without preparation from a crafting window. Constructing is easy and quick as players are able to see a visualization of their next construct before accidently misspending resources. There's also a stability rating that will indicate if your building will collapse if poorly constructed.
You'll be able to take ownership of the zone around your house, preventing other players from building in the area. Homes are essential for storing your things, resting, and expanding your lifespan dramatically. A home has never been so welcoming before.
7. No More Room in Hell (2011)
Developer: NMRiH Dev Team
Genre: Survival Horror, Shooter
Theme: Man vs zombie
Who doesn't love free and amazing game mods? No More Room in Hell is everything you want out of a free game and much, much more. This game is a mod of Half Life 2 and is a FPS with co-op for up to eight players.
You play in a world that is on the verge of collapse from an unknown and destructive disease. Although the chances of survival are slim there are people still out there amongst the millions of zombies. Through teamwork, you and the other uninfected might be able to fight your way towards salvation.
Blood on your axe gives +5 courage and -5 hygiene
No More Room in Hell keeps things feeling pretty realistic. This game is unforgiving and every mistake will punish you. Voice and text communications are limited by distance, so the further you are from others, the harder it will be for them to hear you. If you get bitten by an infected you have the option of informing your team so that they can get rid of you when the time comes or keeping quiet and hope for a zombie cure. Those who turn can bite back at their team who tried to shoot them down.
Players have over 30 weapons to chose from that range from pistols to chainsaws. There's a variety of areas to explore like large cities, abandoned churches, graves, sewers and many other environments. In survival mode you will need to defend and maintain your shelter against the undead in hopes of getting extracted to a safe area.
How will you survive and what will you do if you turn?
No More Room in Hell's official website
6. 7 Days to Die (2013)
Developer: The Fun Pimps
Genre: Survival horror
Theme: Man vs wilderness, man vs zombies
Live the post-apocalyptic dream in 7 Days to Die. The game takes place after the fall of civilization in a world that is entirely buildable and equally destructible, combining elements of exploration, scavenging, and base-defense.
The scariest thing in the picture is the lack of mittens
Each play session is unique in that the player's world is randomly generated, featuring expansive cites, mountains, caves, and other forms of wilderness. Scavenging is the key to success and players will need to search their environment to gather supplies for creating tools, weapons, defenses, and shelters.
Anything in the game can be destroyed and scarped for resources, even the terrain can be destroyed and mined. These resources are necessary for crafting tools, weapons, and homes for players.
Players can take this world on alone or with friends at their side to increase their chances of survival. With an ally at your side you can create sturdy shelters and defenses quickly and safely. Players can spend their time growing plants, hunting animals, developing skill trees to enhance abilities, and completing missions for NPCs in exchange for experience and items.
As 7 Days to Die is currently in its alpha stage, all of these features will be expanded upon in future developments, adding more depth and additional dangers.
7 Days to Die's official website
5. Killing Floor 2 (2015)
Developer: Tripwire Interactive
Genre: Horror, FPS
Theme: Man vs zombie
Are you someone who needs some gore to go with their horror? Killing Floor 2 will bathe it's virtual streets and your PC in gore.
Killing Floor 2 takes place one month after the original game. Since then communications have failed, the military has been eradicated, and the government has collapsed. In order to take on the mass of zombies, a group of mercenaries and civilians have joined together.
There are no fire codes in the zombie apocalypse
The game has tons of new features, characters, monsters, and weapons that build upon the original game, especially gore. Get ready for a blood bath. Killing Floor 2 features an extreme amount of gore like severed limbs, entrails, and spurting blood will be abundant as players fight enemies. The streets will be lined with blood and organs.
Killing Floor 2 has six player co-op for a good zombie slaying time. Players have a multitude of characters that they can play as whether they are playing alone or in co-op. There's various of weapons to pick from and players have control of the melee attacks at their disposal.
Players will easily find a style that fits them and be ready to take on hordes of the undead.
Killing Floor 2's official website
4. Left 4 Dead
Developer: Turtle Rock Studios, Valve Corporation
Genre: Survival horror, FPS
Theme: Man vs zombie
Zombie slaying is always more fun with friends. Get some friends together and take on the undead in Left 4 Dead.
Left 4 Dead is a zombie action horror game that can be played by up to four people at once. You and three of your friends can take control of Bill the war vet, Louis the IT guy, Zoey the college student, and Francis the biker. Each character's skills don't vary, you'll just be picking what character model you want to control. The game has a strong emphasis on team-based strategy and objectives, so teamwork is key.
Zombies are very serious business
You and your group will need to survive the swarming hordes of zombies and horrifying mutants in each level. The game features unique zombies like exploders that vomit on you, stalkers that pounce on you, and witches that stay huddled until exposed to light.
Players will travel across an abandoned city, ghost towns, and dark forests as they attempt to escape the source of the infection.
Things get heated with the game's matchmaking, stats, rankings, and awards system that show things like who killed the most zombies and took the most damage. There's also a versus mode where you can compete against three of your friends either as a human trying to get rescued or as a massive zombie who wants nothing more than to destroy them.
Pick your zombie poison.
Killing Floor 2's official website
3. State of Decay
Developer: Undead Labs
Genre: Survival horror
Theme: Man vs zombie
State of Decay is going to show players how to succeed when zombies attack. The secret to zombie out break success? Influence, lots and lots of influence.
The game plays as a third person survival action game in an open world. While traveling across the world, players will be searching for supplies, recruiting survivors, and maintaining relationships with the people encountered, in and outside of your party.
He's straight from a Wes Anderson film and thrown right into a light zombie jog
Players can rescue playable survivors who offer unique skills such as the ability to repair vehicles and craft weapons. To increase their chances of survival, players are able to switch between characters and utilize their unique skills.
State of Decay's currency is called Influence and is acquired through completing missions, upgrading your base, and items scavenged. Influence can be spent sending out radio calls to possible survivors for recruitment, asking for the backup of a fellow survivor, among other things.
Make sure you're well prepared for missions, you'll never know what horrors you might encounter. If a character dies they are gone for good. You'll need to design your base and fortify it well with outposts and plenty of traps. When in a bind remember that zombies can distracted with noticeable lights and sounds like gun shots and flares while you and your party make a break for it.
State of Decay's official website
2. Dead Island Riptide
Developer: Techland
Genre: Survival horror, action RPG
Theme: Man vs zombie
Get thrown back into the nightmare that is Banoi and continue the fight for survival. Dead Island Riptide takes place on the island of Palanai, located on the Banoi archipelago, and is infested with tons of zombies and only a few survivors who are barely keeping it together.
We'll never be that badass
Similarly to the first game in the series, Dead Island Riptide combines first person action, an open world, and multiplayer co-op. The game introduces new enemies, powerful weapons, skills, locations, and an additional playable character.
The game is still as wild as ever. Players can mod weapons and create items like an electric shot gun and bat covered in barbed wire. Also, players can plow through hordes of zombies in a jeep or boat for zombie slaughter in style.
Players can't forget the importance of protecting their base either. Keep your safe space going strong by building fences and carefully laying mines. When you're not busy with home improvement, there's side quests to undertake and extra ones in co-op. There's also tons of skills to unlock that will improve your character's weapon accuracy and recovery times, among many other things.
Ready to venture back in Banoi yet?
Dead Island Riptide's official website
1. Far Cry 3 (2012)
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Genre: FPS
Theme: Man vs wild, man vs man
Take to the topics in Far Cry 3. In this FPS players take control of Jason Brody as he is taken captive with his friends while vacationing on an island by a gang. Outsiders are hunted and held for ransom. Jason must desperately try to rescue his friends before the madness of the island kicks in.
Players have a great deal of customization in the game. They can customize their weapons, skills, and approach for each mission. Whether you are player that prefers stealth, run and gunning, sniping at a distance, or a mix of everything, you'll be able to play to fit your style.
Good friends engage in survival shoot downs together
Far Cry 3 features a four player co-op campaign where you and your friends will experience the island through a crew on their quest to survive against the horrors of the island. Team work rewards and helps players in more than one way. In order to level up, players have to support each other through things like reviving falling allies, calling in support, and screaming out some battle cries. At the end of each match players can be merciful to their foes or punish them in twisted ways, players will be treated with cut scenes for their choices.
Players will quickly discover how large and diverse the island is, featuring swamps, beaches, and mountain ranges. There's a multitude of animals to hunt, relics to uncover, and mini-games to play. There's over 200 side missions that range from killing an animal with a specific weapon to stealth kills.
There's also the Far Cry Map Editor which allows players to create and access new content quickly and with ease. The game will keep players under is control for ages.
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