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2026PCSteam Deck playable18.25 €

An open-world survival horror set on an enigmatic island, where you build a base, craft traps and siege weapons, and fight colossal monsters with an upgradable gravity gun. The mystery of the giant wall drives your exploration.

Building and crafting
Dread and tension
Open world
Lots to discover

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The closest matches for Project: Mist are The Forest, Sons of the Forest and 7 Days to Die. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Project: Mist special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Forest

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2018PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable96 % positive16.79 €

Building and crafting
Dread and tension
Open world

After a plane crash you build shelters and traps in a dense forest while tribes of cannibals stalk and attack you. Creepy mutant-filled caves and the mystery of your missing son drive the exploration, and it's best played with friends in co-op.

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Sons of the Forest

Building and crafting

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

Building and crafting

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.

Radiation Island

Lots to discover

A survival game set on a mysterious island in a parallel reality after the Philadelphia Experiment: you gather resources, craft gear, fend off threats and look for a way back to the real world.

Subterrain

Sci-fi setting

A sci-fi survival game set in an underground Mars facility where you single-handedly manage resources, craft gear and fend off mutated creatures. Randomly generated levels and base upkeep create a tense, isolated atmosphere.

Project Zomboid

Building and crafting

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.

The Infected

Building and crafting

An open-world survival crafting game in which a parent searches the forest for missing campers. You build a base and fend off wildlife and infected Vambies, a vampire-zombie hybrid.

Outbreak Island

Building and crafting

An open-world survival horror sandbox on a remote island where a mysterious outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. You craft, build and defend your base to make it through.

State of Decay

Building and crafting

A zombie survival game in an open world where you build up a home base, scavenge supplies and manage a roster of survivors with their own skills. Death is permanent for fallen characters, which gives every decision weight.

Chernobylite

Dark, serious atmosphere

A bleak survival horror adventure set in a photogrammetry-recreated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where a physicist hunts for his vanished fiancée. You scavenge zones, build up a base, recruit companions and plan toward a final heist, with choices you can even rewrite reshaping the story.