Games Like The Infected (2026)

Shared: Open-World Survival, Crafting Depth

Hyper-realistic open-world survival on a brutal prison island. Think DayZ with deeper metabolism sim and serious gear progression, but years of early access baggage.

Shared: Solo Experience

Laugh all you want at a trucking sim with 97% positive reviews and nearly a million Steam ratings. ETS2 is the most played chill-out co-op session you never knew you needed.

Shared: Crafting Depth

A brutal, no-zombies survival sim set in a frozen Canadian wilderness where poor planning kills you slower and colder than any monster would.

Shared: Open-World Survival

Parkour across a quarantined city by day, then pray you make it to a safe house before the Volatiles clock in. Ten years on, Dying Light still does the day-night survival loop better than almost anything else in the genre.

Shared: Crafting Depth

Three years of patches, a console launch, and a full rebrand later, New World: Aeternum is a more coherent MMO than it had any right to be after its disastrous 2021 debut. Worth a look for patient explorers, a harder sell for anyone expecting narrative depth or Souls-style combat.