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Best co-op survival games
Co-op games built around returning to one shared world, surviving its dangers and making lasting progress. Gathering, exploration, crafting and building matter in different ways. Not every game includes base-building.
- 65 games
- 11 coming soon
- Newest first
Out now
Build a shared home and explore a ruined fantasy kingdom where dangerous fog limits each expedition.
- 16 online
Early accessPermafrost
Early access
Up to four survivors search frozen ruins, gather supplies and build shelters in an unfinished survival world.
- 4 online
A fantasy survival game where you and your friends build a base, level skills and hunt dragons.
- 6 online
- Crossplay, platforms unclear
A Norse survival game for up to ten, where you build a base together and push out into harder lands.
- 10 online
- Crossplay
Build a shared survival base and collect creatures that fight, farm, and run your production lines.
- 32 online
- Crossplay
Early accessRomestead
Early access
Up to eight friends rebuild a Roman settlement, fight the undead at night and haul resources home by cart.
- 8 online
Early accessSubnautica 2
Early access
An underwater survival game where four friends explore an alien ocean and build bases between expeditions.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
Early accessWindrose
Early access
A pirate survival adventure where friends build island settlements, improve their ships and fight on land and sea.
- Online
A survival and base-building game where you and your friends settle an ancient world with recruited tribesmen.
- Online
Early accessStarRupture
Early access
Four players build factories, search an alien planet and shelter from a star that repeatedly scorches the surface.
- 4 online
Build a train with friends and gather supplies while travelling through a strange floating world.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
Early accessVEIN
Early access
An early access zombie survival sandbox where friends loot houses, grow food and fortify a base together.
- Online
A grim co-op survival game where up to ten players raid a radioactive zone and expand a shared bunker.
- 10 online
A sandbox adventure where friends build a settlement, recruit workers and explore a world of caves and bosses.
- 250 online
Build a flying home with friends and explore floating islands using grappling hooks, gliders and a custom skyship.
- 6 online
Early accessGrounded 2
Early access
A survival adventure for up to four friends who build shelters and ride insects through an oversized park.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
Turn office supplies into survival tools as your science team searches a broken research facility for an escape.
- 24 online
- Crossplay
A wolf simulation set in Yellowstone where you and friends hunt elk, hold territory and raise pups as one pack.
- 8 online
Build a home with friends, farm for supplies and explore islands above a connected network of dangerous caves.
- 8 online
Build a flying home with friends and search the ruins of Earth for a cure in this survival game.
- 4 online
Build an underground home with friends, mine new paths and prepare for giant cave monsters.
- 8 online
You scavenge a ruined world and build a shared fort to withstand recurring zombie attacks.
- Online
- Crossplay
Free co-opA free survival game on shared servers where you and your friends gather, build a base and fight strange monsters.
- Online
- Crossplay
Free co-opTeam play on PvE scenario servers. PC, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series. Online. Group sizes not confirmed.
Steam lists the game as free with in-app purchases.
Feel and other extras describe the whole game. Store buttons can include paid editions.
A vampire survival RPG where you build a castle with friends and hunt bosses for new powers.
- Online
Early accessBellwright
Early access
A slow medieval survival game where up to four friends grow one village and push back against the Crown.
- 4 online
Build an island refuge with friends, then search caves where mutants wait beyond your light.
- 8 online
Survive with friends as tiny forest people, tame insects and build a settlement among enormous trees.
- 10 online
- Crossplay
A survival game where up to eight friends play dwarves who mine, craft and rebuild the ruined halls of Moria.
- 8 online
- Crossplay
Early accessSunkenland
Early access
A co-op survival game on a flooded world where friends dive for scrap, build a base and fight pirates.
- Online
Early accessCosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Early access
A starship building game where you and friends design ships, take contracts and fight enemy ships online.
- 8 online
Build a home with friends and face giant insects as tiny teenagers in a backyard.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
A survival game about living off Pacific islands after a plane crash, alone or with one friend.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
Gather floating scrap with friends and turn a small raft into a home that carries you between islands.
- Online
- Crossplay
A survival role-playing game where you prepare supplies and explore a dangerous fantasy world alone or with a friend.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
A co-op survival game where you build shelters, hunt wildlife and prepare expeditions across a failed terraforming project.
- 8 online
A base-building action game where up to four friends build and defend a shared base on an alien planet.
- 4 online
A medieval survival game where up to four friends build and run one village together on the Oxbow map.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
You and your friends build an automated factory while its pollution draws attacks from the planet’s inhabitants.
- 500 online
- Crossplay
A space survival sandbox where friends build ships, gather resources and explore alien planets together.
- Online
A space sandbox where friends build blocky ships, mine asteroids, trade and fight pirates in one shared galaxy.
- Online
A jungle survival game where four players share food, build shelters and learn how to treat dangerous injuries.
- 4 online
An online wasteland game where teams of up to four scavenge, build camps and fight creatures together.
- 4 online
A zombie survival game where you run a community of survivors and up to three friends join your world.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
A shared survival world where friends build settlements, explore ruins and fight through the lands of Conan.
- Online
Friends build a camp and search dark caves while surviving attacks on a wooded peninsula.
- 8 online
Build a shared settlement, tame dinosaurs and explore an island where hunger and predators threaten your tribe.
- 70 online
- 2 split-screen
- Crossplay
Free co-opA blocky zombie survival sandbox where friends scavenge, build a base and play together on a shared server.
- 24 online
- 2 split-screen
Free co-opSurvival on a friends server. PC, Mac, Linux. Online. Group sizes not confirmed.
The page says truly free to play, with only cosmetic items for sale. This covers the PC game. The console editions are separate paid products.
Feel and other extras describe the whole game. Store buttons can include paid editions.
Early accessColony Survival
Early access
A first-person colony builder where friends run a settlement together and defend it from monsters at night.
- Online
- 2 split-screen
The other 6 games, newest first
Coming soon
Not out yet. Features and feel describe announced design and may change. Soonest first.
29 October 2026ATMOSFAR
Coming 29 October 2026
Fly between alien islands with up to four players and build a shared airbase that travels with you.
- 4 online
2 December 2026Blind Descent
Coming 2 December 2026
A survival game for up to four in a jungle cave under Mars, where you search for a missing team.
- 4 online
8 December 2026Never Be Alone
Coming 8 December 2026
A zombie survival game where you and friends scavenge ruined places, fight infected and defend a walled safezone.
- Online
2026Frostrail
Coming 2026
A survival shooter where up to four friends share a steam train and loot a frozen wasteland.
- 4 online
8 February 2027Outward 2
Coming 8 February 2027
A hard survival role-playing game for one or two players, where you are an ordinary person in a fantasy land.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
March 2027JOIN US
Coming March 2027
A dark comedy survival game where up to four of you start a doomsday cult and run its compound.
- 4 online
- Crossplay, platforms unclear
2027BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2
Coming 2027
An upcoming survival sandbox where friends share skills and shelter through a frozen city and its surrounding wilderness.
- Online
2027HAEX
Coming 2027
A survival shooter you can play with up to three friends, set in a cold wilderness full of alien threats.
- 4 online
2027Rooted
Coming 2027
An upcoming survival game where friends salvage abandoned places and build camps in a contaminated world.
- 6 online
2027State of Decay 3
Coming 2027
A zombie survival game for up to four friends who run settlements together in one large shared world.
- 4 online
UpcomingDon't Starve Elsewhere
Not out yet
An upcoming Klei survival game where you and friends gather, craft and hold out in a strange world.
- Online
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