- #1 Nightingale
87% 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 40% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #2 Green Hell
87% 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 46.9% ★, Survival 17.7%, Online Co-Op 6.9%, Open World 6.9%, Crafting 6.9%
- #3 Subsistence
86% 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 50.9% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.2%, Base Building 5.6%
- #4 The Long Dark
85% matchVery Positive91% of 116,937 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 47.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.1% ★, Survival 22.7%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 5.2%, Post-apocalyptic 1.9%
- #5 The Wild Eight
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6.5%, Online Co-Op 4.5%
- #6 Stranded Deep
84% 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 55.8% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 3.7%
- #7 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
83% 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 37.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.1%
- #8 ICARUS
83% 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 41.5% ★, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.7%
- #9 Fragmented
85% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.7% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 6.3%, RPG 3.2%
- #10 GRAV
84% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 6.9%
- #11 Mist Survival
83% 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 46.2% ★, Survival 24.2%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 7.3%, Crafting 6.5%
- #12 Force of Nature
83% 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 50.5% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 3.4%
- #13 Miscreated
82% 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 54.7% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 10%, Crafting 5.7%, Post-apocalyptic 3.3%
- #14 Craftopia
80% 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 37.5% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 13.1%, RPG 4.6%
- #15 Voidtrain
78% 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 48% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.4%, Base Building 7.1%
- #16 Don't Starve
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,218 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 30.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 5.5%, Multiplayer 1.9%
- #17 Subnautica
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 343,340 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Base Building 7.4%
- #18 Conan Exiles
78% 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 40.6% ★, Survival 23.1%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 4%
- #19 Planet Explorers
79% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.5% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 8.4%, RPG 4.7%
- #20 Subnautica: Below Zero
76% matchVery Positive90% of 102,203 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 7.6%, Crafting 6.5%
- #21 How to Survive 2
78% matchMixed69% of 10,986 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 24%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 5.6%
- #22 Deadside
76% 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 41.4% ★, Survival 18.8%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 6.1%, Base Building 6.1%
- #23 Sunkenland
75% 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 48.4% ★, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 6.7%
- #24 Savage Lands
77% 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 50.7% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.1%
- #25 HumanitZ
74% 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 28.4% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #26 Life is Feudal: Your Own
76% matchMixed66% of 12,035 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%, RPG 4.1%
- #27 Forever Skies
73% 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 37.8% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%
- #28 Volcanoids
75% 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 41.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #29 The Planet Crafter
72% 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 41.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #30 Breathedge
73% 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 54.7% ★, Survival 17.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 6.6%
- #31 The Survivalists
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,929 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Open World 8.1%
- #32 Night of the Dead
70% 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 38.4% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #33 Frozen State
73% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 25.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8%, RPG 6.7%
- #34 Dune: Awakening
69% 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 38.2% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #35 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
68% 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 42.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #36 Niffelheim
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,327 reviews2018
Dev: Ellada Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.7%
- #37 Will To Live Online
69% matchMixed69% of 18,143 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 29.9%, Open World 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%, Crafting 5.1%
- #38 StarRupture
66% 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 40.2% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #39 This Land Is My Land
69% matchMixed68% of 4,600 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.3% ★, Survival 19.3%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 7.9%, RPG 5.3%
- #40 Scrapnaut
69% matchMixed70% of 823 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.8%
- #41 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 41.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%
- #42 Outlaws of the Old West
68% matchMixed59% of 6,284 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 11.4%, Base Building 4.4%, Crafting 4.1%
- #43 Citadel: Forged with Fire
66% matchMixed68% of 5,882 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 14.6%, RPG 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%
- #44 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 43.9% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%
- #45 Beyond Contact
63% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,108 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Co-op 6%
- #46 Frozen Flame
63% 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 40.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%
- #47 Grounded
60% 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 38.4% ★, Survival 20.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 6.5%
- #48 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
61% 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 35.8% ★, Survival 19.8%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 11.2%
- #49 OUTRIDERS
60% matchMixed67% of 61,009 reviews2021
Dev: People Can FlyPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 26.8 hrsMean: 52.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Outriders’ brutal and bloody combat combines frenetic gunplay, violent powers and deep RPG systems to create a true genre hybrid.
Why similar: RPG 24.5%, Co-op 21.9%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #50 Northern Lights
61% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Snow 6.4% ★
- #51 Raft
57% matchVery Positive93% of 368,269 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 20.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.5%, Base Building 5.4%
- #52 Far Cry® Primal
60% matchVery Positive86% of 38,901 reviews2016
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 25.7%, Open World 19.5%, Crafting 8.7%, RPG 1.8%
- #53 Survival: Fountain of Youth
57% matchVery Positive86% of 4,259 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 19%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8.9%
- #54 Dota 2
59% matchVery Positive81% of 2,684,717 reviews2013
Dev: Valve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 1428.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 38.5%, Multiplayer 30.3%, Co-op 14%, RPG 13.6%, Action 3.6%
- #55 METAL GEAR SURVIVE
60% matchMixed66% of 5,650 reviews2018
Dev: KONAMI
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 53.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
METAL GEAR SURVIVE builds upon MGSV’s stealth action gameplay with elements of exploration and survival creating a bold new experience. *An internet connection is required to play the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 21.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
- #56 Grounded 2
56% matchVery Positive81% of 19,779 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Survival 20.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #57 Generation Zero®
58% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,563 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Co-op 7.9%
- #58 SCUM
55% 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 45.4% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 7.3%