Games Like Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

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 33.8% ★, Open World 22.7%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 9%, Exploration 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most direct thematic experience of surviving and thriving in a prehistoric, dangerous open world.

Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.

Why similar: Open World 16.6%, Survival 16.5%, Science 15.5%, Nature 14.3%, Immersive Sim 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the animalistic perspective and survival challenges of living in the wild with a focus on realism.

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 47.6% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on environmental hazards, nutrition, and physical health mirrors the punishing survival mechanics of the seed game.

Saurian is a survival-simulation experience about living the life of a dinosaur. Starting from the egg, you must survive to adulthood amidst the perilous Hell Creek ecosystem of 66 million years ago, meticulously reconstructed with the help of professional paleontologists.

Why similar: Survival 39%, Open World 32%, Simulation 14.9%, Multiplayer 5.2%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly realistic, simulation-heavy approach to surviving as a creature in a prehistoric ecosystem.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Survival 41.8%, Historical 21.8%, Open World 14.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Choices Matter 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the technological and social evolution of early humans, mirroring the progression themes of the seed game.

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 21.2%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 16%, Historical 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The generational progression and focus on building a legacy align well with the clan-based evolution mechanics.

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 51.3% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 12%, Crafting 5.9%, Exploration 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at creating an atmospheric, isolated survival experience where the environment is your greatest adversary.

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 44.7% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and gradual progression through a hostile, nature-focused world that rewards discovery.

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 38% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of navigating a vast, dangerous environment from a unique, vulnerable perspective.

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 37% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.4%, Historical 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game prioritizes exploration and the mastery of survival skills in a challenging, natural setting.

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 30.1%, Open World 27.7%, Crafting 18.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Adventure 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep prehistoric survival experience with a heavy emphasis on taming and interacting with ancient fauna.

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 42.4% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The unique perspective of being small in a massive, dangerous world captures the sense of wonder and peril found in Ancestors.

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 45.8% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Exploration 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: The emphasis on learning about an alien ecosystem through exploration and experimentation is a core parallel.

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 42.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Historical 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features a large-scale open world where survival and tactical navigation are key to your success.

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 52.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Exploration 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines intense survival mechanics with a mysterious, exploration-heavy open world.

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 33.3%, Open World 29.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Simulation 8%, Third Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a multiplayer-focused dinosaur survival experience that emphasizes the struggle for existence.

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 49.6% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the raw, isolated survival experience of navigating and mastering a dangerous natural environment.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Crafting 25.3%, Open World 21.4%, Exploration 9.1%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to guide a tribe of early humans through the challenges of development and environmental adaptation.

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 39.4% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Science 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The session-based survival and exploration mechanics emphasize adapting to a wild, unforgiving environment.

Live as your favourite african animal, choose between being a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, predator or prey. In this multiplayer ecosystem, with a realistic open world, choose to become a lion, a elephant or even a swift gazelle! But remember, the savannahs law is to survive at any cost!

Why similar: Survival 21.1%, Nature 18.8%, Open World 18.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Third Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the life cycle and survival of various animals in a realistic, nature-driven environment.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Open World 16.7%, Survival 10.5%, Exploration 7.7%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The core loop of exploration, discovery, and survival in alien environments mirrors the spirit of the seed game.

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Simulation 31.8%, Open World 25.7%, Survival 14.8%, Singleplayer 8.5%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and study of prehistoric creatures, appealing to the nature-simulation aspect of the seed game.

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 43.7% ★, Survival 24.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 7%, Exploration 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on discovery and learning the rules of a hostile world through trial and error.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Open World 35.5%, Survival 24.5%, RPG 13.8%, Exploration 7%, Third Person 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a punishing, exploration-driven survival loop that rewards preparation and environmental knowledge.

Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 20.8%, Crafting 18.9%, Third Person 10.7%, Exploration 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on the prehistoric era, focusing on crafting, survival, and tribe management.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 10.3%, Exploration 4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and crafting with a focus on exploring and expanding across a diverse, dangerous map.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 22.5%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep and complex survival simulation that rewards long-term planning and adaptation.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Multiplayer 5.6%

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 41.2% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Nature 6.9%

Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 5.6%, Simulation 4.7%

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 35.7% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Immersive Sim 7.3%

'Survival In Africa' is an RPG-type survival game that survives using items and crafted items that are dropped when various monsters are defeated.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.8% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.5%, Adventure 7.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Nature 7.4%

Will you survive? Be the dinosaur and thrive in a prehistoric world designed to give a true dinosaur survival experience. Dinosaurs Prehistoric Survivors lets players live the life of a dinosaur in a prehistoric environment where players must learn to hunt and adapt in order to survive.

Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Open World 20.9%, Nature 13.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Simulation 7.4%

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Exploration 6.4%

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a third and first-person action-adventure game set in the Western Frontier. Reconnect with your lost heritage and discover what it means to be Na'vi.

Why similar: Open World 36.1%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Exploration 11.7%, Adventure 7.5%, Immersive Sim 6.9%

Adapt. Survive. Thrive. In a world of ancient, prehistoric wonders you will have to learn to rely on your instincts as dinosaurs and poachers compete to SURVIVE PANGEA!

Why similar: Simulation 39.8%, RPG 32.9%, Action 17%, Indie 10.3%

In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.1%, Historical 9.5%

Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Science 15.1%, Nature 11.5%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.6%

The Cenozoic Era is a realistic animal survival game taking place during the rise of mammals, take control of a variety of animals and fight to survive among other players to reach the top of the food chain. Death, Destruction, Survival, Scavenge, Nature, Thrive, Conquer, Hunt. The Cenozoic Era

Why similar: Nature 20.3%, Immersive Sim 17.4%, Third Person 12.8%, Exploration 12.5%, Simulation 9.6%

An open-world action adventure game set in a simulated world in which humans never reached the top of the food chain.

Why similar: Open World 27%, Third Person 13.6%, Action-Adventure 9%, Nature 8.8%, RPG 8%

Trail of Ayash is an innovative and exciting open world game focused on the indigenous people, their struggles. Our world is a unique version of the lands dominated by the myths and legends of Its Inhabitants. Various tribes interact with one another, engaging in diplomacy, war, and expansion.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Open World 12.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Historical 9.3%

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 44.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Open World 15.3%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Exploration 7.1%

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 36.9% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Nature 9.6%

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 21.1%, Open World 20.7%, Crafting 19.9%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Exploration 9.9%

Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!

Why similar: Open World 25.3%, Nature 20%, Exploration 10.3%, Third Person 10.3%, RPG 7.5%

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Open World 34.5%, Simulation 24.2%, Survival 14%, Multiplayer 10%, Singleplayer 7.8%

In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9%, Simulation 5.7%

Vantage is a passion project created by a solo developer where your main objective is simple... to stay alive! You explore the massive world searching for food, creating primitive tools and weapons to hunt, and craft other items to make life easier. Play Online/Offline Multiplayer or Single Player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Historical 8%, Open World 8%

Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Open World 14.7%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Multiplayer 5.7%

A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building. Get born to another player as your mother. Live an entire life in one hour. Have babies of your own in the form of other players. Leave a legacy for the next generation as you help to rebuild civilization from scratch.

Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Crafting 25%, Open World 24.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Simulation 9.7%

The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10%, Crafting 8.1%, Nature 5.8%

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 49.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 4.7%

An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 11.6%, Historical 9.6%

Immerse yourself in a prehistoric ecosystem brought back from extinction. Survive and carve out your niche on islands teeming with danger and opportunity!

Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Nature 15.6%, Open World 15.4%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Third Person 9.6%

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 47.3% ★, Open World 14.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9%, Exploration 4.5%