Games Like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2026)

Shared: Emergent Gameplay, 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

Four players, one alien ocean, and enough existential dread to ruin a perfectly good Friday night. Subnautica 2 is an Early Access survival game that already hooks hard, but it stops dead before you're ready for it to.

Shared: Open-World Stealth

Rocksteady's send-off for the Dark Knight nails the on-foot fantasy harder than any superhero game before it, then spends roughly a third of its runtime making you drive a tank.

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: 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.