Build
Your walls, your rules
Grow crops, raise walls and keep your survivors fed.
See it in motion
Official screenshots from the PC version.
What hooks you
Three reasons players stay past the first evening.
Heroes
Recruit real specialists
Each hero brings skills, gear and a role in battle.
Alliance
Never fight alone
Team up and take territory in alliance events.
What you do in a session
The loop is simple to learn and keeps going for months:
Build
Upgrade your settlement, farms and defenses so it can hold.
Rescue
Save survivors who escaped the zombies — some have skills you need.
Research
Study the mutating virus to unlock new strategies.
Fight
Clear zombies, then take on rival survivors with your alliance.
Your first evening in State of Survival
You install the game from Steam and take charge of a small, run-down settlement. The first hour teaches the basics: gather resources, rebuild the buildings, train your first troops and clear the zombies nearby. Soon you recruit your first heroes and choose what to upgrade next. Then comes the big step: joining an alliance. From there, the game is about planning — what to build, who to send, and when to strike with your allies.
How to download State of Survival on PC
- Press “Play free now” at the top of this page. The free Windows or Mac download opens in a new tab.
- Run the installer. It downloads the game files — about 8 GB — so keep that much free space on your drive.
- Launch State of Survival once the install finishes. It is free to play from the start.
Can my PC run State of Survival?
Rig Check–
Your PC is ready.
Play free nowEstimate based on public GPU benchmarks and the official requirements; RAM (4 GB) and 8 GB of free space matter too.
On a Mac? Official minimum: Mac App Store version: a Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later, running macOS 11 Big Sur or later.
Free? Pay-to-win? Quick answers
- Is it really free?
- Yes. It is free to play on Steam, with in-app purchases.
- Who makes it?
- FunPlus International AG, which develops and publishes it.
- Can my PC run it?
- Steam lists Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit), an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 4 GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 460 or Radeon HD 4400, and 8 GB of storage. Most PCs from the last ten years can run it.
- Can I play alone?
- You can build and fight zombies at your own pace, but it is an online MMO: alliances and other players are a big part of the game.
- Does it run on Mac?
- Yes, on Macs with an Apple M1 chip or later (macOS 11 or later), through the App Store version. Older Intel Macs are not supported.
- When did it come out on PC?
- On Steam, on August 2, 2023.
Ready to build the last safe settlement?
Play free nowMore free PC games
Not for you if you want a story game with an ending, prefer to play offline and alone, or have an older Intel Mac — on Mac, it needs an Apple M1 chip or later.
Partner link: we may earn a commission. Sources: Steam store page (app 2485460): description, developer, release date, platforms, features and PC requirements (November 2026).