Games Like 7 Days to Die: The Best Zombie, Voxel and Base-Defense Survival Games in 2026

You've survived enough Blood Moons to have opinions about spike traps, and now you want games like 7 Days to Die. The trouble is that "like 7 Days to Die" is really four or five different itches stuck together: zombies, base defense, a world you can dig up and knock down, crafting depth, and a group of friends to do it with. Almost nothing nails all of them, so I've sorted the picks by what you're missing. Quick heads up: apart from one free game, everything on Steam here is paid.

Prices are Steam list prices (US store) as of October 2026. Sales happen constantly, so check the store before you buy.

What game is most like 7 Days to Die?

Honest answer: nothing is a clone. For the zombie-survival-and-fortify side, Project Zomboid is the deepest. For the voxel-you-can-terraform side, it's Enshrouded, minus the zombies. And if you just want to test the idea for nothing, Unturned is free. Everything below is a different slice of the same game.

Quick picks

If you miss zombie survival and base defense

Project Zomboid

The one I'd point most 7DTD players at first. Steam calls it an open-ended zombie-infested sandbox: you loot houses, barricade windows, farm, fish, cook, trap and drive. There are hundreds of zombies with swarm behavior, and they don't run unless you flip that in the sandbox settings. Multiplayer runs on persistent player-run servers, and there's local split-screen co-op too. It's $24.99 on Windows, Mac and Linux, and as far as I can tell there's no console version.

Know what you're getting, though. It's isometric, top-down, so there's no first-person shooting. It isn't voxel, and nothing collapses under its own weight. There's no horde-night countdown either. It's slower and meaner, and Steam still tags it Early Access.

Unturned

The free one. It's an open-world zombie survival sandbox where you scavenge, build a shelter, fortify it and fight off hordes, alone or with friends, with PvP raids if that's your thing. Steam lists online and LAN co-op, plus Workshop maps and mods. The blocky look might make you think voxel, but it isn't a destructible voxel world, so don't expect to dig. Steam says it's free-to-play with no pay-to-win mechanics, only cosmetic items. My take: it won't match 7DTD's crafting depth or building physics, but it's the cheapest way to find out whether you want more zombies and base-building in your life.

Dying Light

Not a base builder. Dying Light is a first-person open-world zombie game built around parkour, and the day/night cycle flips you "from a hunter to hunted at sundown," in Steam's words. That night tension is the closest thing here to the dread of a horde night. Steam lists co-op for the story campaign. The Essentials Edition is $24.99 on Steam (the Definitive 10th Anniversary Edition is $49.99), and it's rated M.

If you miss voxel building and destruction

Enshrouded

No zombies, no horde night, but it nails the part of 7DTD I'd miss most: a world you can reshape. Steam describes voxel-based building and fully terraformable land, in a solo and co-op survival action RPG with co-op for up to 16 players. It's $39.99 list on Windows (Steam had it on sale for $35.99 when I checked), and the 1.0 release date on its Steam page is October 15, 2026. It's new, so expect patches. If you want the fantasy version of "build a fortress, then survive" it's a strong pick.

Minecraft and Terraria

Minecraft is the obvious voxel answer, with its own zombie-filled nights in survival. My list of games like Minecraft covers the options properly. Terraria is 2D, but it's $9.99 and a real dig-and-build-and-fight game, with online co-op. I wrote up games like Terraria if that's your direction.

If you want to play with friends

Most of these pick up co-op in some form: Unturned has online and LAN, Project Zomboid has persistent servers and split-screen, Enshrouded goes to 16, and Sons of the Forest lets you craft and build defenses together. Sons of the Forest is a survival horror on a cannibal island, not a zombie game, and it's not for kids (Steam flags intense violence and gore). It's $29.99 on Windows. If your group is more "build a big base together" than "fight undead," my best building games roundup goes wider, and games like Valheim has more co-op survival picks.

Games like 7 Days to Die on Xbox and PS5

7 Days to Die itself is the easy answer: it left early access on July 25, 2024 on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Crossplay between PC and consoles came later. The old PS4 and Xbox One versions were delisted and are stuck on an old build, so skip those. For the other picks here, check your console's store before you buy; I wouldn't count on a PC survival game having a console version.

Games like 7 Days to Die without zombies

If you just want something to fight and don't care whether it's zombies, Enshrouded and Sons of the Forest both fit. Enshrouded is the one with the reshapeable voxel world, and Sons throws cannibals and mutants at you.

Games like 7 Days to Die on mobile

I haven't found a credible mobile version of 7 Days to Die or the zombie picks here. If you want to play on a tablet, Steam Remote Play is the workable route, and I'd steer clear of the knock-off "clones" in app stores.

So which one should you play?

Want the zombie survival: Project Zomboid. Want to try it free: Unturned. Want the night-time dread in first person: Dying Light. Want a world you can sculpt with friends: Enshrouded. Want to stay on the original: 7 Days to Die is $44.99 on Steam and still the only one that gives you all of it at once.