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Scavenge a zombie-ravaged world by day, then fortify homes or vehicles and survive horde attacks alone or with friends.
Released 05 Dec 2025
Fortify Existing Homes
Build a Rolling Base
Brace for Night Hordes
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Developed by a2z Interactive · Published by a2z Interactive
In an open-world zombie survival sandbox, you search for supplies and try to stay alive alone or with friends. Scenarios shape the experience, including how challenging the world is and how often hordes arrive.
Explore towns and points of interest for location-specific loot, gather materials, and craft useful gear as you develop character skills that unlock more recipes. Cooking, hunting, and farming help manage nutrition and hydration, while weapon attachments let you adjust your firearms.
Rather than building a home from scratch, claim an existing structure and reinforce it with barricades, traps, and electrical systems. Repair and fortify vehicles, store supplies in them, or set up a mobile base; prepare during daylight for more dangerous encounters after dark.
Players who enjoy the game often point to its tense day-and-night survival rhythm, atmospheric world, and the satisfaction of scavenging and preparing a defended hideout before a horde arrives. Vehicle fortification and mobile bases, adjustable world settings, and playing with friends are also recurring draws. Many reviews temper that enjoyment with complaints about bugs, lost items, and a lack of longer-term goals or content.
Prepare during the day. Survive the night.
Survive the Nights is a hardcore open-world survival game where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify, and plan during the day — because when night falls, the infected hunt in numbers, and mistakes are punished.
Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions, strong fortifications, and cooperation under pressure.
Zombie difficulty comes from numbers, not individual strength. By day they roam slowly — by night they gather into massive hordes drawn to player activity. The longer you survive, the bigger and more dangerous the nights become.
Structures and vehicles are fully fortifiable. Cover windows and add strength to gain the advantage.
Like to be on the move? Take your home on the road. Cook, sleep and store your items in your mobile base.
Settle into your new home by using pegboards, player storage and blueprints to put your stamp on the place. Physically place your items in the world to make your perfect survival hideout. Use traps to get the upper hand. Traps can give you the edge when zombies or raiders arrive.
Cook over an open fire or directly on a stove to manage your calorie and hydration needs. Maintaining your player vitals will increase your overall strength and carrying capacity over time.
Sick of canned food? Head out into the wilderness to hunt for larger animals.
When food stores start to run out, turn to farming for your calorie needs. Protect your crops indoors under light or grow them outside in the warmer months to produce food that will last through winter.
Weapon attachments let you customize your gun and get it just right for your play style.
Every vehicle is repairable. Engine and wheel parts are required to get a vehicle running. Items can be stored in trunks and on truck beds.
Explore the different points of interest to find valuable location-specific loot.
The weather is dynamic including all four seasons along with seasonal vegetation and foliage.
Spend your days preparing to survive the onslaught at night. Zombies are more aggressive and alert when the sun goes down.
Day Objectives: During the day, focus on resource gathering and fortification. Fell trees, craft planks, engage in hunting and trapping. Collect loot, food, and fortify a structure. Ensure doors and containers are locked, fuel generators, and prepare power systems. Keep your health up by lighting fires, crafting bandages, and gearing up for the night.
Night Objectives: At night, prioritize safety and stealth. Team up with friends in a secured structure, favor melee over firearms to stay quiet. Activate generators, power up structures, set traps, and cook meals indoors on wood stoves. The key is to survive until morning.
The mental health system discourages the "Kill On Sight" mentality, promoting alliances for better survival against the zombie threat. While PVP is still a factor, players have ways to correct a negative mental state.
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Powering a structure can provide light to make nighttime activities easier. Some structures also require electricity to power interior and exterior doors.
Full Steam Workshop support with the ability to mod all areas of the game. Mods can be browsed and installed directly ingame.
If achievements are your thing, we’ve got you covered. With almost 100 achievements, you’ll be busy for some time. Can you ‘Choke a Chicken’?
Simple game hosting that uses steam relays. There’s no need to port forward. Simply choose your settings and start playing.
Expand electrical systems - This will include electrical traps, house alarms, heating systems, working stoves, more lighting in towns and roadways, light towers, functioning water pumps (water tied to power).
Expanding weapons - New weapons and improved handling.
Additional vehicles - Expanding on “mobile survival” such as adding box trucks, trailers and light aircraft.
Fishing - Spend your days shore side with a line in the water, if you think it’s safe.
Character customization - A full scale character customization feature including the implementation of a female character
Expand on STN+ and Workshop - This includes more furniture, structure painting, holiday lights and decorations, proper Steam workshop implementation and working arcade’s with API.
Grouping system - Players can join a grouping system with friends.
Island wide community missions and events - Come together to clear out larger structures. Band together and share your loot to repair the power station and provide the entire island with power.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 89 |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | Survive the Nights supports single-player and multiplayer. Official store features list online PvP, online co-op, LAN PvP, and LAN co-op. The game can be played solo or with friends, supports server hosting through Steam relays, and player reviews also mention private and dedicated servers, PvE/PvP servers, and customizable hosted sessions. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game has full Steam Workshop support and states that all areas of the game can be modded. The provided text does not specify multiplayer compatibility limits, but reviews mention customizable servers and scenarios, implying mods and settings can affect multiplayer sessions. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
