Games Like Among Trees

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 47.1% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 5.5%, Exploration 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly atmospheric and immersive survival experience centered on cabin living and managing resources in a beautiful, isolated wilderness.

Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Why similar: Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the relaxing, nature-focused exploration and cabin-building loop found in Among Trees.

Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.

Why similar: Open World 24.5%, Sandbox 20.6%, Exploration 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Colorful 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the wholesome, creative aspects of nature management and world-building in a vibrant, colorful setting.

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Relaxing 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the restoration of nature and gardening within a survival framework, matching the peaceful, eco-centric vibe of the seed game.

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 33.5% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the sense of wonder and scale found in nature-based survival, focusing on exploration and building within a lush, oversized environment.

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 39.1% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: While underwater, it provides the same sense of awe-inspiring exploration and survival-based progression in a stunning, living ecosystem.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxed, cozy take on the survival genre, focusing on base-building and resource management in a charming, overgrown world.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Farming 23.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for peaceful exploration and base-building on floating islands, emphasizing a harmonious relationship with the environment.

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Farming 17.8% ★, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 7.4%, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on sustainable technology, base-building, and farming in a cozy, nature-integrated world.

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 34.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the satisfying process of transforming a desolate landscape into a lush, thriving environment through exploration and crafting.

Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Farming 20.6% ★, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title centers on relaxing exploration and base-building, perfect for players who enjoy the low-stress, atmospheric side of survival games.

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 39.6% ★, Survival 18.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game emphasizes nature exploration and base-building with a unique, vibrant aesthetic that feels both dangerous and wonderful.

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 8%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique tile-based world-building mechanic that encourages exploration and atmospheric survival in a stylized setting.

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 43.5% ★, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a compelling loop of scavenging and crafting to turn a small, mobile base into a well-supplied home while exploring an open world.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Farming 23.8% ★, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines farming, building, and exploration in a colorful, island-based setting that feels both productive and peaceful.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep building mechanics and a beautiful, nature-rich world that rewards exploration and survival preparation.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Farming 23.9% ★, Crafting 7.9%, Building 6.4%, Sandbox 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends farming and survival with a cozy, lighthearted aesthetic that rewards players for building a life in the wilderness.

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 33.2% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a detailed survival experience with a strong focus on exploration and crafting within a beautiful, natural archipelago.

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Cooking 14.2%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the intense, cabin-centric survival experience of living in a harsh, beautiful, and unforgiving natural environment.

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 31.6% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique, atmospheric survival loop centered on maintaining a high-tech airship while exploring a ruined, nature-reclaimed world.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Crafting 24.3%, Building 24.3%, Open World 21.1%, Sandbox 20.1%, Simulation 4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes building and community in a charming, colorful world, offering a more relaxed pace than traditional survival games.

Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and base-building in a vast, open world, catering to players who enjoy the quiet satisfaction of establishing a home.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Building 16.8%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12.8%, Base Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep, immersive experience in building a life and a home within a realistic, nature-filled medieval landscape.

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 41% ★, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more challenging, its distinct, stylized art and focus on surviving in a strange, nature-filled world share thematic DNA with the seed game.

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Open World 15.3%, Survival 15%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing, sandbox-style survival experience with a focus on building and farming in a beautiful, nature-inspired world.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.2%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric survival experience where your vehicle acts as your mobile base, similar to the importance of the cabin in Among Trees.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Open World 14.6%, Survival 9.9%, Exploration 7.5%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled freedom in exploring colorful, diverse alien ecosystems with a heavy emphasis on survival and base-building.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Crafting 24%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 17.4%, Relaxing 17.3%, Exploration 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the cozy, communal aspects of survival, farming, and nature-based progression in a prehistoric setting.

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on survival and exploration in a vast desert landscape, offering a different but equally atmospheric take on the genre.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 5.8%

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 47.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 4.8%

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 40.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 7.1%

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic, exploration-heavy survival experience that focuses on crafting and interacting with a procedurally generated wilderness.

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.4%

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 43.1% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 6.3%

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.9%

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 38.3% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.6%

Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Open World 18.7%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 9.1%

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 31.1% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.9%, Building 8.1%

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 45.7% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 6.7%

Grab your axe, hop on the handcar, and lose yourself in the forest. Chop trees, upgrade your gear, and enjoy the ride - alone or with a friend

Why similar: Relaxing 20.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Exploration 16.2%, Atmospheric 13%, First-Person 12.1%

In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 8%, Survival 8%

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 37.5% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%

A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.

Why similar: Cooking 45.1%, Relaxing 14.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, First-Person 9.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

Why similar: Crafting 22.2%, Base Building 20.9%, Building 15.7%, Open World 13%, Relaxing 11.6%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 8.6%, Sandbox 7.3%

Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 6.4%, Base Building 5.9%

Channel your inner witch! Build your cozy chicken-legged hut, practice witchcraft, and forage for ingredients in autumnal woodlands. Solve quests & uncover the great mysteries of the legendary witch Baba Jaga…

Why similar: Cooking 20.5%, Crafting 15%, Building 14.9%, Open World 13.9%, Sandbox 12%

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

Why similar: Cooking 18.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.4%

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.

Why similar: Survival 27%, Building 25.5%, Sandbox 16.3%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Exploration 10.1%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Crafting 16.4%, Survival 16%, Base Building 16%, Building 14.6%, Exploration 9.3%

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: Survival 16%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 12.2%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%

Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

Why similar: Farming 35% ★, Cooking 16.7%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Relaxing 7.7%

CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Building 8.6%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 6.8%