Games Like How to Survive 2 (2026)

Shared: Base Building

Surviving alone was already brutal - surviving with friends who make catastrophic decisions is another beast entirely. A deep, unforgiving co-op survival game that rewards patience, preparation, and someone on the team who knows what a Science Machine actually does.

Shared: Base Building

Hardcore open-world survival in a post-Soviet wasteland where other players are the real threat. No hand-holding, no respawns with your gear.

Shared: Base Building

Crash a plane, lose your son, then spend 30+ hours building spike traps and slowly losing your mind to cannibals. Solo or with up to 8 friends online, this one earns its Metacritic 83.

Shared: Skill Tree

An 86-rated origin story reboot that holds up as a tight third-person shooter with genuine survival-horror tension, let down by a multiplayer mode nobody asked for and even fewer people play.

Shared: Skill Tree

Respawn took Dark Souls, Metroid, and Uncharted, threw them in a blender with a lightsaber, and somehow the result is the best Jedi game in years - if you have the patience for a slow burn.