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A free-to-play battle royale with a bright cartoon look, where fast gunfights and optional building decide who survives. Constant new seasons, live events and a huge library of player-made modes keep it fresh.

Building and crafting
Competing against other players
Sandbox with your own goals
Co-op or multiplayer

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The closest matches for Fortnite are Palworld, Ark: Survival Evolved and Rust. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Fortnite special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Fortnite

Best alternative overall: Palworld 93% match – Building and crafting
To play together: Sea of Thieves 87% match – with co-op
Newest alternative: Duckside 86% match – released 2024

Best match

Palworld

93 %Match

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Palworld mashes creature collecting together with survival crafting and base building. Captured Pals fight beside you, carry you across the islands or toil away in your factory while you explore an open world armed with guns. Its cheeky, slightly macabre humor gives the whole thing a flavor of its own.

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Ark: Survival Evolved

Open world

Stranded on an island full of dinosaurs, you gather resources, build bases and tame prehistoric beasts to ride and fight alongside you. On multiplayer servers it becomes a harsh, time-hungry struggle of tribes, raids and alliances.

Rust

Building and crafting

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.

Sea of Thieves

Playing together in co-op

A shared-world pirate sandbox where your crew sails a ship together, hunts treasure and runs into other player crews who might become allies or attackers. The thrill comes from teamwork and unscripted encounters at sea rather than grinding for stronger gear.

Unturned

Sandbox with your own goals

A free-to-play zombie survival sandbox with blocky low-poly visuals where you scavenge, craft and build bases across large maps, teaming up with or betraying other players. A huge modding and workshop scene keeps it endlessly replayable.

Duckside

Sandbox with your own goals

Think DayZ or Rust, but you play a hat-wearing duck with a gun. You scavenge, craft, build bases and fight other players and the environment in a persistent open world.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Co-op or multiplayer

A colorful, goofy third-person shooter where plants and zombies clash in team battles using a wide roster of classes and variants. The big 24-player mode and the wave-based co-op are the highlights.

Hurtworld

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

Ark: Survival of the Fittest

Co-op or multiplayer

A battle-royale-style spin-off of Ark where up to 72 players fight for survival on an island full of dinosaurs. Solo or in tribes, you quickly gather gear, tame creatures, and outlast environmental threats and rivals.

7 Days to Die

Open world

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.