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2025PCSteam Deck verified85 % positive19.95 €

Misery is a co-op survival game for 1 to 5 players set in a irradiated nuclear wasteland. You scavenge procedurally generated ruins, build up your bunker, craft weapons, and fight off anomalies, monsters and bandits together with friends.

  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Lots to discover

The closest matches for Misery are Rust, The Wild Eight and Sons of the Forest. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Misery special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Rust

89 %Match

2018PC87 % positive−50 % 39.99 € 19.99 €

  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

A brutal multiplayer survival sandbox where you spawn with nothing, gather resources, build bases and fight other players to stay alive. Raids, betrayals and clan wars make every wipe unpredictable.

The Wild Eight

Lots to discover

A survival game set in the frozen Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash, where you gather resources, craft gear and fend off cold, hunger and dangers, solo or in online co-op.

Sons of the Forest

Lots to discover

Stranded on a remote island, you craft, build and fight to survive while cannibals and mutants hunt you. Play solo or in co-op, delve into dark caves, and fortify a base, with AI companions helping along the way.

7 Days to Die

Strong character progression

A zombie survival sandbox built on crafting, looting, base building and skill progression, where every seventh night a massive horde tests your fortifications. Played solo or in co-op, it blends first-person shooting with tower-defense tension.

Deadside

Co-op or multiplayer

A hardcore multiplayer survival shooter set in a large, realistic open world after civilization's collapse, with no zombies or anomalies. It centers on scavenging, staying alive and fighting other players.

Project Zomboid

Dark, serious atmosphere

An unforgiving zombie survival sandbox where you loot, build, craft and train skills until your inevitable death. Its deep simulation and highly customisable rules turn every run into a personal survival story, solo or with friends.

Hurtworld

Lots to discover

A punishing first-person multiplayer survival shooter where you gather, craft and fight other players and the environment to stay alive. Its survival progression stays demanding well after your basic needs are covered.

Hunt: Showdown 1896

Co-op or multiplayer

A tense PvPvE extraction shooter set in the bayous of late-1800s Louisiana, where you hunt monstrous bosses while other teams hunt you. Slow period weapons, sound that gives you away and the permanent loss of your hunter make every match nerve-wracking.

DayZ

Co-op or multiplayer

Unforgiving multiplayer survival across a vast zombie-infested countryside where hunger, sickness and above all other players are the real threat. Every encounter can turn into an alliance or a betrayal, and death means starting over from nothing.

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