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Games like The Long Dark

Enjoyed The Long Dark? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as Mayday: The Survival Island, Kona, The Infected. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About The Long Dark: The Long Dark is an exploration-survival game in which a solo player has to fend for themselves in a vast frozen wilderness after a geomagnetic disaster. No zombies await, only the cold and everything nature can throw at you. It offers Survival Mode, a free-form, non-narrative sandbox where survival is the only goal and death the only end, along with the episodic narrative mode WINTERMUTE. Players watch hunger, thirst, fatigue and cold, every action costs calories, and dying in Survival deletes your save.

Updated 12 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

About these games

Mayday: The Survival Island

After a mysterious crash, you wake up alone on a remote island, injured and disoriented. Mayday: The Survival Island combines survival, item crafting and free exploration: you hunt wild animals, fish, grow crops and build your own homestead. You explore an archipelago of 24 islands, from misty swamps and sun-bleached beaches to ancient cemeteries and forgotten ruins, searching for treasure and uncovering secrets hidden beneath the waves. The story unfolds according to your decisions, with no forced objectives or linear path.

Kona

It is October 1970 and a strange blizzard sweeps across Atamipek Lake in Northern Canada. Wealthy industrialist W. Hamilton hires private detective Carl Faubert to look into vandalism at his hunting manor, yet Faubert ends up stranded in the far north, unable to reach his client or any other living inhabitant. He has to survive the harsh elements while untangling the odd events. This narrative-driven adventure mixes detective work with survivalism, told by an omniscient third-person storyteller in a look reminiscent of 1970s rural communities, with music by Quebec folk band CuréLabel.

The Infected

The Infected is a singleplayer sandbox survival crafting game played from first person in an open world. Players build and expand a base with power and water systems, grow crops, raise animals, hunt wildlife, mine ores and craft advanced items. Dynamic seasons, weather and the day/night cycle affect hunger, thirst, body temperature and health. The hybrid AI enemies ‘Vambies’ are optional and can be switched off for a purely survival and building experience.

Praey for the Gods

Praey for the Gods is an open-world action adventure where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to uncover the nature of a never-ending winter. Arriving with only the clothes on your back, you must survive among the massive beasts that rule the landscape. Almost anything can be climbed, from ruins and mountains to the beasts themselves as you scale and defeat them, and you can glide through the air or swim in frigid water. Progress is non-linear — you choose the order of the fights — and cryptic paintings of an ancient civilization hint at a forgotten story.

Starsand

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. In an open world of over 64 km², the player hunts for food, makes weapons and builds a shelter. They must manage their energy, protect themselves from the daytime heat and the cold nights, and find their way through sandstorms. Alongside insect-like predators, the player faces dangers, mysteries and puzzles linked to an extinct civilization.

The Last Caretaker

The Last Caretaker is a first-person survival-crafting adventure set on a drowned world, where the player awakens as the last active Caretaker, a machine built for one purpose: save humanity. Over the ocean covering the ruins, they scavenge, dismantle wreckage and recycle materials into tools, weapons, power networks and modules, restoring the Lazarus Complex. They recover human seeds, manage their growth, restore memory data and prepare them for launch into orbit, while holding off rogue machines and keeping their equipment in repair. The story is uncovered through places, logs and memories.