- #1 Deadside
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 39,995 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, FPS 9.6%, PvP 8.6%
- #2 Dune: Awakening
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,162 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.8 hrsMean: 95.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Base Building 10.9%, PvE 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #3 The Glade
76% matchMixed59% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: Michael Schade
Windows
The Glade is a beautiful open world survival set on a stylized island which has been struck all over from large and mysterious meteorites creating a bridge for evil creatures from another world to enter and destroy anything in their path.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, PvE 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%
- #4 Sunkenland
73% matchVery Positive81% of 22,978 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%, PvE 7.1%
- #5 HumanitZ
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,511 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.9%
- #6 Savage Lands
73% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, PvE 8.7%
- #7 Nightingale
72% matchMixed67% of 17,828 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.2%
- #8 ICARUS
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 61,628 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
70% matchVery Positive82% of 9,613 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 10.1%
- #10 Green Hell
70% matchVery Positive85% of 94,082 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #11 SCUM
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,783 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 101.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, FPS 8.1%
- #12 Survive the Nights
66% matchMixed66% of 6,311 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12%, PvE 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #13 The Front
66% matchMixed68% of 10,744 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #14 Once Human
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 166,819 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 9.6%
- #15 Night of the Dead
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,724 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #16 Volcanoids
67% matchVery Positive83% of 9,208 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 9.2%
- #17 Subsistence
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,591 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #18 Hurtworld
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 16.4%, FPS 14.8%, Crafting 12.9%, PvP 6.5%
- #19 Grounded
63% matchVery Positive90% of 92,775 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #20 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
63% matchVery Positive82% of 11,420 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 9.7%
- #21 7 Days to Die
62% matchVery Positive87% of 396,447 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
- #22 The Infected
64% matchVery Positive85% of 6,890 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #23 Breathedge
63% matchVery Positive82% of 16,019 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%
- #24 Enshrouded
61% matchVery Positive86% of 97,939 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 13.8%, PvE 9.2%
- #25 Voidtrain
60% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,131 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #26 StarRupture
59% matchVery Positive81% of 10,595 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #27 Force of Nature
63% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 6.2%
- #28 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
59% matchVery Positive91% of 7,147 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #29 Dawnlands
60% matchMixed52% of 3,123 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #30 Frozen Flame
59% matchMixed63% of 2,965 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #31 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
56% matchVery Positive81% of 23,832 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 12%
- #32 Mist Survival
59% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,035 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Survival 18.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #33 The Planet Crafter
56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,071 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.4%
- #34 Stranded Deep
57% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,028 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.3% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 13%, Realistic 6.1%, Sandbox 5.1%
- #35 Miscreated
59% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, PvP 5.4%
- #36 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
58% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,318 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #37 Forever Skies
54% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,270 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Survival 10.9%
- #38 Craftopia
56% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,967 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Crafting 20%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #39 Plains of Pain
55% matchVery Positive85% of 678 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, PvE 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #40 Dawn of the Dying
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cube Game Studio
Windows
In a brutal open world, standing still means death. Explore together in a co-op survival FPS where crafting, building, and fighting with friends is the only way forward.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, PvE 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #41 Reckfell
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 8.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #42 Out of Reach
57% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #43 Conan Exiles
55% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,387 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.2%
- #44 Soulmask
53% matchVery Positive81% of 17,527 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #45 Ways
54% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HAGAKI PRODUCTIONS
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated PvPvE world with friends in first-person. Complete quests, craft weapons, build bases, and wreak havoc on enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #46 Outerstellar
54% matchMostly Positive73% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.3%, PvP 9.9%
- #47 Hades II
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 115,606 reviews2025
Dev: Supergiant Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24.1 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Why similar: RPG 49.4%, Action 32.6%, Singleplayer 17.9%
- #48 DARKEST DAYS
53% matchMixed49% of 4,654 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 41%
DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Shooter 8.9%
- #49 ARK: Survival Ascended
52% matchMixed60% of 99,899 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.8 hrsMean: 196.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 17.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 14.6%, PvE 11.9%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #50 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
53% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,064 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, PvE 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #51 VEIN
50% matchVery Positive90% of 9,414 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #52 Borderlands 4
51% matchMixed60% of 76,713 reviews2025
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: 2K
Windows
Median: 36.1 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
Why similar: PvE 27.6%, FPS 21.8%, Online Co-Op 21.3%, First-Person 10.8%, RPG 9.6%
- #53 ASKA
51% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,270 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 10.8%
- #54 The Last Caretaker
50% matchVery Positive85% of 9,555 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.0 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 14.1%, Shooter 9.3%
- #55 Balatro
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 186,904 reviews2024
Dev: LocalThunkPub: Playstack
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.6 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #56 Bellwright
51% matchVery Positive81% of 18,854 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Crafting 26.3%, Online Co-Op 23.5%, Simulation 8%, RPG 7.4%
- #57 Miscrits: World of Creatures
50% matchVery Positive92% of 2,546 reviews2025
Dev: Lightning Ball Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
After years of absence, Miscrits is back and better than ever! Return to the world of Miscria and capture hundreds of iconic Miscrits. Train your Miscrits to their strongest forms and put a stop to the Magicites, who threaten to eliminate all Miscrit life from the world!
Why similar: PvE 35.4%, Character Customization 27.2%, PvP 27.1%, Adventure 10.2%