- #1 Away From Life
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cursor Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Underwater 25.4% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 8.2%, PvP 6.4%
- #2 Under a Rock
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nordic TrollsPub: Gameforge 4D GmbH
Windows
A procedural open-world survival craft game for 1-10 players. Explore a primitive but dangerous place with a different evolutionary path; here, wildlife is oversized, Neanderthals still exist, and curses are real.
Why similar: Underwater 22.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Crafting 6.9%, Base Building 6.8%
- #3 Project Castaway
94% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Underwater 23.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.3% ★, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.3%
- #4 Project AlbatrOS
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DiSolve Studios
Windows
Take on the role of an underwater reef explorer, find a way to save the corals from extinction. Dive into the colorful waters of Water, explore and admire the local reef, explore the mystery of the island. Gather resources to create your own bases in order your survival.
Why similar: Underwater 32.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6.5%
- #5 World In The Abyss
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lazy Cat Studio
Windows
The aliens have caused the oceans to rise, plunging the world into the abyss. Survive, craft, and explore this mysterious underwater world. Build your base, defend it against relentless waves of enemies, and dive deep to uncover the secret that could stop the alien invasion once and for all!
Why similar: Underwater 26.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #6 Subnautica
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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: Underwater 30.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.2%
- #7 Subnautica: Below Zero
91% matchVery Positive90% of 102,346 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: Underwater 31.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7.9%
- #8 Sunkenland
91% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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: Underwater 28.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%
- #9 Under A New Sun
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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: Underwater 23.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.5%
- #10 Survive on Raft
90% matchMixed63% of 1,245 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Underwater 19.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 7.9%
- #11 Unknown Seas
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RobinPub: Ragnox
Windows
Explore the unknown procedurally-generated world of islands and seas. Fight enemies, farm materials, craft equipment, build your base, slay bosses and level up your character. Conquer the unknown with your friends.
Why similar: Underwater 22.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 7.3%
- #12 Aurendor
88% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Open World 9.4%
- #13 Oceaneers
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Underwater 31.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.2%
- #14 Raft
86% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 26.1% ★, Survival 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Underwater 8.2% ★
- #15 Sea Warden
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
Sea Warden is a co-op survival game set on a living island carried across the endless ocean by a massive sea turtle named Ao. The sea, the wind, and the creatures beneath the waves are always changing.
Why similar: Underwater 26.2% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%
- #16 Reckfell
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 8.7%
- #17 Rust
84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #18 Wild Omission
84% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #19 Longvinter
83% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Open World 10.4%
- #20 Survival: Fountain of Youth
81% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 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: Underwater 23.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.9%
- #21 Stranded Deep
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 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 31.7% ★, Survival 15.6%, Underwater 11.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #22 Subsistence
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 30.7% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #23 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
80% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.7%
- #24 Hurtworld
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #25 Wildsite
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.7%
- #26 Cast Ashore
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unanchored Studios
Windows
After a catastrophic rocket crash, you find yourself stranded on an island with only the ocean and unexplored land before you. Immerse yourself in a peaceful, open-world adventure where curiosity guides your journey. Survive. Build. Explore.
Why similar: Underwater 29.3% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #27 Green Hell
78% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 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 29.4% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #28 SkyCraft
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 10%
- #29 The Last Viking
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #30 Core Keeper
75% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.5%
- #31 Fish Survivor : Feed and Grow and Evolve
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: dorkybot
Windows
Dive into an epic underwater world in "Fish Survivor" where you'll start as a small fish and embark on an exciting survival journey. Hunt, feed and grow into super-sized sea creatures as you explore an amazing underwater playground, all while evolving and gaining new abilities along the way.
Why similar: Underwater 55.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, PvP 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Online Co-Op 5.1%
- #32 Undercraft
77% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #33 Valheim
75% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 25% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #34 Good Heavens!
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows
Good Heavens! Is an open-world crafting and building RPG. Embark on a solo adventure or team up with up friends, picking your tool of choice – sword, wand, or carpenter's hammer. Navigate the quirky races and cultures of the promised lands and restore them to their, ahem, intended glory.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 9.9%
- #35 Shamania
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
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 22.6% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #36 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
72% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #37 Solace Crafting
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 9.4%
- #38 Crushed
74% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 24.6% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #39 ICARUS
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 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 23.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #40 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.9%
- #41 Grounded 2
70% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 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 18.5% ★, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10.5%
- #42 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
71% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 21.8% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 8.8%
- #43 Force of Nature
73% 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 30.7% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #44 Craftopia
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 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 22% ★, Crafting 18.1%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #45 Renown
70% matchMixed60% of 1,544 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #46 Ways
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HAGAKI PRODUCTIONS
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated PvPvE world with friends in first-person. Complete quests, craft weapons, build bases, and wreak havoc on enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.3% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.7%
- #47 Feed and Grow: Fish
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 20,772 reviews2016
Dev: Old B1oodPub: Greens s.r.o.
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!
Why similar: Underwater 56.8% ★, Survival 17%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 3.4%
- #48 Survival Machine
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.8%
- #49 Grounded
68% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 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 25% ★, Survival 18.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #50 Sea Scraps
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Scrapworks Games
Windows
After a catastrophic event flooded the Earth, the remnants of humanity are left adrift on an endless ocean. With nothing but scraps of the old world floating across the waves, survivors must scavenge, build, and fight to stay alive in this vast water-covered wasteland.
Why similar: Underwater 33.3% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #51 Divided Land
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mich
Windows
Join the fight for survival in a vast medieval open world. Explore, hunt, craft powerful gear, raid and plunder enemy villages, or forge your own path. As darkness falls, the dead awaken—prepare your defenses or seek shelter. Join allies in co-op PvE or test your skills in savage PvP.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10%
- #52 Palworld
67% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #53 Nightingale
68% matchMixed67% of 17,841 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 24.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
- #54 Whisper of the Swallows
66% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 9.2%
- #55 Out of Reach
69% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #56 Planetaries
67% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.5%
- #57 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
67% matchMixed60% of 455 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #58 Necesse
64% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%