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MISERY

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

What works

  • Immersive stalker-inspired atmosphere
  • Addictive survival and looting gameplay loop
  • Strong co-op multiplayer experience
  • Procedurally generated maps for replayability
  • Base building and customization

Things to keep in mind

  • Janky combat and ui issues
  • Bugs and desync problems
  • Limited map size and variety
  • Lack of autosave feature
  • Some griefing in multiplayer

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sons Of The Forest

  • Plains of Pain

  • MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!

  • Nuclear Nightmare

  • Lethal Company

  • KLETKA

More competitive

Games that feels like MISERY but with more competition against others

  • STALZONE

  • SCUM

  • Dying Light

  • Zombie Panic! Source

  • Left 4 Dead

  • SURV1V3

More relaxing

Games that feels like MISERY but with a more relaxing feel

  • Valheim

  • Abiotic Factor

  • Voidtrain

  • Into the Radius 2

  • StarRupture

  • Sketchy's Contract

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with MISERY. These titles are not in What to play next.

MISERY: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026