Games Like Arctico

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 41.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Co-op 11%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and base building while traversing a vast, open world, mirroring the aquatic traversal mechanics of Arctico.

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 37.7% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the joy of discovery and traversal in a vibrant, open environment with a strong emphasis on creative base building.

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 54.5% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 4.2%, Exploration 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive snowy survival experience, perfectly capturing the isolation and environmental challenge found in Arctico.

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 38.8% ★, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.1%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a rewarding loop of terraforming and base building in a desolate, atmospheric landscape that encourages constant exploration.

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 45.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 7.1%, Crafting 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled sense of atmospheric exploration and survival in a beautiful, vast, and often mysterious 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 32.8% ★, Co-op 11.1%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that tasks you with building and maintaining a mobile base while exploring a ruined world.

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 40.5% ★, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.9%, Co-op 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features excellent co-op building and exploration mechanics set in a harsh, atmospheric wilderness that feels both dangerous and beautiful.

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 6.5%, Base Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the peaceful, atmospheric nature of surviving in a beautiful forest, focusing on solitude and resource management.

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 37.1% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8%, Base Building 7.6%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering in diverse, dangerous biomes.

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 35.2% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9%, Co-op 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes exploration and base building from a unique perspective, focusing on the beauty and scale of the natural 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 27%, Crafting 16.7%, Base Building 15%, Exploration 9.4%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique focus on vehicle-based survival and traversal through a mysterious, ever-changing environment.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique traversal mechanics combined with base building in a surreal, open world that rewards curiosity.

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 48.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the isolation and survival mechanics of being stranded in a vast, natural environment, emphasizing crafting and exploration.

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 36.9% ★, Survival 14.4%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep survival mechanics with a strong emphasis on exploration and base building in a highly detailed, immersive environment.

Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and sailing, mirroring the aquatic traversal and sense of freedom found in Arctico.

The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 34.9%, Crafting 20.4%, Adventure 16.2%, Open World 10.5%, Indie 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features exploration and survival mechanics centered around water travel and island hopping, similar to the kayaking in Arctico.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 6.8%, Crafting 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Survival in space with a focus on building and exploration, capturing the feeling of isolation found in Arctico.

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 47.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a strong focus on base building and survival against environmental and AI threats in a persistent open world.

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 45% ★, Survival 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An intense survival experience that emphasizes the dangers and beauty of the natural world, requiring deep knowledge of your surroundings.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with a focus on base building and resource management in a stylized, atmospheric world.

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 35.8% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on massive open-world exploration and crafting with a high degree of player freedom and minimal restrictions.

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: Co-op 15%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base building with a focus on living in harmony with nature and developing a settlement over time.

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.8%, Nature 8%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox approach to exploration and building with a vibrant, stylized aesthetic that encourages creative play.

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 14.9%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the snowy survival theme with a focus on co-op, exploration, and managing resources in a freezing climate.

Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 9.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that shares the snowy, atmospheric setting and exploration focus of Arctico.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67.1% ★, Survival 18.6%, Co-op 4.2%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Open World 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic co-op survival game with a distinct, atmospheric art style and challenging mechanics that demand careful planning.

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 32.4% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op survival with a focus on fishing, farming, and base building in a stylized, open-world setting.

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 33.6% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.2%, Base Building 7.5%

Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.

Why similar: Co-op 17.4%, Survival 16.3%, Nature 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the peaceful, cooperative aspects of setting up camp and enjoying nature in a sandbox environment.

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Survival 7.1%

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 7.1%, Open World 7.1%

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 40.3% ★, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Co-op 10.8%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 6.6%

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 45.6% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Crafting 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Island-based survival that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a multiplayer-focused environment.

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 33.8% ★, Survival 10.7%, Snow 8.2% ★, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 7.4%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Co-op 11.3%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 6%

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: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%

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 34.4% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.9%, Base Building 7.4%

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 35.4% ★, Open World 11.3%, Nature 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Sandbox 6.1%

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 39.4% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%

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 44.2% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Snow 8.9% ★, Crafting 7.8%

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 44.6% ★, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 5.4%

Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%

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 40.1% ★, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, Nature 8.5%, Crafting 7%

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 36.2% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 8.2%

Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%

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 41.6% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 6.5%, Base Building 6.5%

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 12.9%, Co-op 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, Co-op 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%

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 40.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 8.3%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.8%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Co-op 10.8%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 7.3%, Base Building 6.2%, Building 4.5%

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 45.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 6%

Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.2% ★, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 6.1%, Building 4.8%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Co-op 10.1%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%