The Best Co-op Survival Games Like V Rising

V Rising sold PC gamers on a pitch that sounds like it shouldn't work: isometric vampire-lord survival with base-building, boss hunts, and full PvP raiding bolted on top. It's part ARPG, part colony sim, part Rust — and once your friend group finds the loop, nobody wants to log off before the castle's finished.

This list ranks the closest matches first — survival-craft games with the same backbone of build, gather, fight bigger things, defend what you built — before moving into looser picks that swap the vampire theme for viking longships, floating islands, or straight-up zombie hordes. Every game here supports a real group, not just solo grinding.

Recruit the crew, pick a home base, and start stockpiling for the first raid.