6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Distrust. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Distrust.
Release Date: 22/09/2014
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, 3D First-Person and Pixels
Holstin is a survival horror adventure set in an isolated 90’s Polish town infected with an ominous presence. Play involves exploring the town, talking to locals and fighting the zombies. It stands out for the detail of its world and the ability to...
Release Date: 08/07/2014, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Unturned is a strategy survival game where you are in a Minecraft and Roblox-style world filled with zombies. You have to carefully explore the world, gather resources and craft weapons. You might go in guns blazing, sneak around making use of...
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Ark: Survival Evolved is an adventure simulation game that offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose...
Release Date: 08/02/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Rust (also, Rust: Console Edition) is an online survival game set in the wilderness. You explore, gather and craft materials to manage hunger, thirst, health and protection. The preparation is to ward off the threat of bears, wolves and (more commonly)...
Release Date: 23/05/2018
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea. You start the game on a small raft with only a hook made of old plastic, which you use to pull in floating barrels and planks of wood.
32 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Distrust. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Distrust.
Release Date: 23/04/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Don't Starve is an open-world survival game. Here it’s the environment and enemies, rather than other players, that you work with. You need to find and develop food, weapons and shelter to survive. It’s enjoyable because it’s hard, so repeat-plays...
Release Date: 01/10/2011, updated in 2018
Out Now: Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Go Vacation is a resort exploration adventure where 50 mini-games can be discovered and played. The mini-golf, skating, surfing, volleyball, car racing, tennis and other games use the Wii and Switch motion-sensitive controllers and are simple fun for...
Release Date: 06/10/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Alien: Isolation is an adventure horror game set in space, remastered in 2019 from the 2014 game due to its popularity. You play Amanda who is trying to find out the truth behind her mother's disappearance. You explore Sevastopol, a decommissioned...
Release Date: 29/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Open World and Weather
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival adventure where you are a tiny character in an overgrown wilderness. You work with other players to make your way in the living breathing world full of hazards and opportunities. It stands out for the openness...
Release Date: 21/04/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Stranded Deep is a survival game set in the Pacific Ocean. Taking a cue from films like Cast Away, you survive a plane crash and face life-threatening scenarios in a large open world. As the weather and time of day changes with the hours, you explore...
Release Date: 30/05/2014
Out Now: PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
The Forest is a survival horror game where you are the only passenger to live after a plane crash. You explore a mysterious forest to find food, shelter and safety but soon have to battle strange cannibalistic people.
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Red Lantern is an adventure with a team of husky dogs in the alaskan wilderness. You and a team of sled dogs head into the wilderness and traverse the ever-changing events of the Alaskan bush to find your way home. The result is a game that...
Release Date: 28/07/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back garden. It’s like Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets Fortnite. Ants, cockroaches, and bees pose a threat along with environmental hazards like water, tall grass and large...
Release Date: 20/03/2018
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Starbound is an action-adventure game from the developer of Terraria about the exploration of space. It's a world viewed from side-on, with simple visuals that enable it to offer complex systems and hundreds of items for players to discover their own...
Release Date: 01/05/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Scavengers is a strategy survival game with an emphasis on team work and shooting. Squads of three compete to survive in open worlds with harsh environments, computer enemies and periodic missions. Different characters must use their unique abilities...
Release Date: 30/03/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Open World
Evil Genius 2 is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game where you play the evil villain. You must build a detailed, functional lair from where you can take control of the world. Similar to Sim City and 2 Point Hospital, you use your resources wisely as you...
Release Date: 08/08/2006, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress. It's unusual not only for it's text-based appearance but for it's expansive scope, and intricately...
Release Date: 03/07/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
DayZis a post-apocalyptic open-world survival game. The population are infected with an unknown virus and you play as one of the few who are immune. You fight other survivors for limited resources and weapons. However, If you die there are no extra...
Release Date: 14/11/2014, updated in 2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night
This War Of Mine is a narrative strategy game inspired by the 1992–96 Siege of Sarajevo, this is a war game where you play the civilian trying to survive during the fighting. You face tough decisions on how to spend time and resources each day to...
Release Date: 09/11/2016, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Beholder is a detective game where you spy on tenants in a building, discover their secrets and report violations of laws to the authorities. As the game unfolds and you see more of the controlling totalitarian state, an uneasy tension develops between...
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 23/05/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Project Winter is a multiplayer survival game. Up to 8 people work to survive the winter by gathering resources, repairing structures, and braving the wilderness dangers together. However, up to two people are traitors within the group and try to dash...
Release Date: 08/11/2013
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Project Zomboid is a zombie-infested open-world strategy game. It's a survival game that's designed to be really hard. In fact, the game's tagline is "no help is coming, how will you die?" You of course do your best not to die by looting houses,...
Release Date: 11/08/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Cult Of The Lamb is a god-sim strategy game, where you are a cult leader rather than an actual god. You play a lamb and start your own cult as you venture out into the world of woodland worshippers. It combines explorative combat like Binding of Isaac...
Release Date: 26/04/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Days Gone is a survival adventure game set in a post-pandemic Oregon. You roam an open world pulsing with life (and zombies). It's unusual for its scale and sheer number of enemies. Add to that the changing light and weather and Days Gone creates a...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Rooted is an open-world survival game where you eke out an existence in a post-apocalyptic America where nature has retaken the cities and villages. You construct a base, scavenge for resources, and infiltrate the territories of rival survivors and...
Release Date: 15/04/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Ashwalkers is an adventure survival game where you play a small group facing the aftermath of an apocalyptic volcano. You journey through a wild landscape, encountering dangers and strangers. It's a challenge of survival notable for its understated...
Release Date: 05/08/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Death Trash is a role-play game set in a post-apocalyptic, horror open world. Humans travelled to the stars, but unearthed machines and killer worms so had to flee into enclosed habitats. You play an outcast in the wasteland with a dangerous burden to...
Release Date: 11/03/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive is a point-and-click adventure set after a cataclysmic event that left the Earth struggling with the environmental fallout. You play through just 4 days and must discover how to fortify your home against each night's new...
Release Date: 14/06/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Fallout Shelter is a time management simulation game. Set in the Fallout wasteland after a nuclear war, you play as an Overseer of an underground bunker. You accrue currency to build rooms, attract people and train them to provide resources, craft...
Release Date: 21/09/2017
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Heat Signature is a tactical shooting game where you break into spaceships on missions to hijack them, steal important technology, assassinate crew members and rescue captives. With simple visuals, viewed from above, you can approach this in many ways...
Release Date: 24/04/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a heist simulation game. You control a crew of robbers who escape from jail and take on a series of increasingly complex robberies. The novelty is the simple top-down view of proceedings that allow for complex strategies...
Release Date: 27/10/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Signalis is a puzzle, shooting and survival game with horror elements where you search a desolate alien planet for your missing partner. You gather resources and weapons and use them to defeat robotic enemies and solve puzzles to advance through the...
Release Date: 09/12/2022
Out Now: Android
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
1 Bit Survivor is an adventure survival game about driving your car across a country in the aftermath of an unstoppable virus. It stands out for its limited colours and simple-to-play hard-to-master playstyle. But really this is a game that's great...
Release Date: 24/09/2009, updated in 2011
Out Now: PS3 and Wii
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Dead Space: Extraction is a shooting game where you only control the aiming, like a light gun game. It's a spin-off prequel from the main Dead Space series and follows survivors of a mining colony as it is overrun by deadly monsters.
Release Date: 22/11/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Pixels and Weather
Zero Sievert is a retro shooting and survival game where you scavenge a wasteland to find gear and supplies to stay alive in a hard devastated world. You play by stealthily exploring buildings and forests to find and modify weapons. The trick is then...
Release Date: 17/08/2017, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Darkwood is a survival horror role-play where you must scavenge the forest to fortify your cabin ready for the strange and disturbing attacks of each night. You play by exploring the grotesque open world that changes each day then get back to hunker...
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