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Unturned - Dedicated Server

2019

Should you play it?

What works

  • Free and easy to use for those with technical knowledge
  • Enables multiplayer play with friends
  • Supports mods and customization
  • Good learning opportunity for server management
  • Stable performance when configured correctly

Things to keep in mind

  • Difficult setup for non-technical users
  • Complicated port forwarding and networking
  • Lack of autosave feature
  • Frustration with configuration and bugs
  • No integrated official servers, reliant on community hosting

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sven Co-op

  • Citywars Tower Defense

  • Dead Maze

  • Don't get lost

  • The Genesis Project

  • Craftopia

More competitive

Games that feels like Unturned - Dedicated Server but with more competition against others

  • Golf Gang

  • Screencheat

  • Temtem

  • Redmatch 2

  • Paint Warfare

  • Goblin Summer Camp

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

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).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • 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).

Unturned - Dedicated Server: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Progression.

Last update: 03/08/2026