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 46.7% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 5.6%, Exploration 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of isolated, atmospheric survival in a beautiful yet unforgiving 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 13.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the relaxing, nature-focused survival experience with a heavy emphasis on meditation and building in harmony with the environment.

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 27.4% ★, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on building your own world piece-by-piece in a serene, atmospheric setting that rewards careful exploration.

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 26.2% ★, Farming 23.9% ★, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends cozy base-building and exploration with a vibrant, colorful aesthetic that feels very similar to the charm of Among Trees.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly immersive, atmospheric exploration experience where the environment is both a beautiful sandbox and a source of constant wonder.

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%, Sandbox 20.7%, Exploration 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Colorful 10%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the wholesome, nature-tending aspects of the genre, allowing you to nurture and restore a vibrant world.

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 24.8% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It brings a cozy, low-stress approach to the survival genre, focusing on building a home in a beautiful, overgrown world.

You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!

Why similar: Open World 20.3%, Crafting 18.7%, Relaxing 14%, Exploration 11.9%, First-Person 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a purely atmospheric, non-violent exploration game that captures the same sense of wonder and appreciation for nature.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Relaxing 29.9%, Exploration 26%, Open World 25.5%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a short, incredibly relaxing exploration experience that focuses on the joy of traversing a beautiful, natural landscape.

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 38.9% ★, Farming 24% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Building 6.5%, Sandbox 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows for a relaxed approach to building and farming in a vast, open wilderness inspired by the Australian outback.

Embark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.

Why similar: Open World 31.5%, Relaxing 20%, Exploration 19.3%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Adventure 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a unique, stylized art direction and a meditative focus on exploration that resonates with the visual appeal of Among Trees.

Even the smallest person can make a big difference. Join Alba, as she sets out to save her beautiful island and its wildlife. And possibly start a revolution.

Why similar: Open World 40.6%, Exploration 25.4%, Colorful 12.7%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses entirely on the beauty of nature and wildlife photography, offering a peaceful experience centered on environmental preservation.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 26.8%, Exploration 18.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, First-Person 12.6%, Colorful 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a colorful, relaxing, and highly rewarding loop of exploration and resource management in a vibrant alien world.

Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.

Why similar: Crafting 26.1%, Relaxing 23.3%, Sandbox 20%, Exploration 17.7%, Colorful 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines farming, crafting, and exploration in a beautiful, tropical setting that prioritizes a cozy and relaxing pace.

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 32.6% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses heavily on exploration and crafting, rewarding players who take the time to learn the environment.

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 22.4%, Base Building 21%, Building 15.6%, Open World 12.7%, Relaxing 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on cleaning up and restoring a beautiful, post-apocalyptic landscape, emphasizing farming and home improvement.

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% ★, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 7.9%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience where you build and expand your home while floating through an endless, beautiful ocean.

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 38.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: While it features combat, the core loop of building a cozy home in a beautiful, atmospheric forest is highly reminiscent of the seed game.

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 37.8% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a dedicated survival experience that focuses on the challenges of living in a beautiful, cold, and isolated environment.

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox environment with a strong emphasis on building and exploration in a peaceful, natural setting.

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 33.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being small in a massive, beautiful natural world, focusing on exploration and base-building.

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 26.5% ★, Cooking 14.5%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the atmospheric and challenging aspects of surviving in a harsh, snowy wilderness.

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 18.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique, atmospheric survival experience centered on maintaining your vehicle as you explore a mysterious, nature-reclaimed environment.

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 32.8% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic survival experience that focuses on the intricate details of crafting and living off the land.

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% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration in a beautiful, open-world environment.

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 20.4%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a satisfying, long-term survival loop that emphasizes exploration and crafting in an open-world setting.

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 24.5%, Building 24.2%, Open World 20.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Simulation 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, satisfying loop of crafting and building within a charming, vibrant world that encourages a relaxed pace.

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 32.5% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a survival experience in a vast, open desert that emphasizes exploration and the struggle to build a home.

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 21.3% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.8%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox survival experience with a focus on building, crafting, and exploring a large open world.

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 37.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an adventure-focused survival experience that encourages exploration and base-building in a mysterious land.

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 45.2% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.7%, 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 46.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, 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 39.8% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 12.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.3%

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 42.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.4%

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 30.6% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 9.3%

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 34.6% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Relaxing 8%, Survival 8%

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 12.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%

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% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%

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 20.8%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 14.8%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 12.1%

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% ★, Survival 18.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 12%, Open World 8.6%, Sandbox 7.4%

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 40.5% ★, Survival 22.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 6%

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 18.5%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.4%

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% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 6.8%

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 35.5% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 6.9%

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: Crafting 15%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%

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 33.8% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.7%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 11%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.3%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.6%

A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

Why similar: Survival 15.6%, Crafting 15%, Open World 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.8%

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% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%

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 16.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 15.9%, Building 14.5%, Exploration 9.3%

⚗️ 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% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.4%, Building 8.6%

Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 7.6%

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% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 6.6%, Base Building 6%

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 27.3%, Building 25.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Exploration 10.3%

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 7.8%

The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12%, Crafting 10.1%, Exploration 7.2%