Games Like AREAZ

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 49.8% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 6.4%, Sandbox 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for realistic, singleplayer survival where environmental management and cold-weather endurance are paramount.

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 38.4% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes realistic exploration and survival mechanics in a challenging, isolated island setting.

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 50.8% ★, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, realistic survival mechanics that require constant attention to physical health and environmental threats.

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 41.5% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strong singleplayer-focused survival game that prioritizes realistic environmental threats and resource management.

Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Nature 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival in a challenging, isolated environment with a strong emphasis on exploration.

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 41.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a realistic survival experience set in a harsh desert environment that demands careful resource planning.

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 36.5% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers high-fidelity survival mechanics focused on realism, including complex crafting and navigation.

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 50% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep survival and crafting mechanics with a singleplayer-friendly focus on long-term base development.

MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Nudity 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that offers a large open world with a heavy emphasis on exploration and crafting.

Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53% ★, Survival 18.8%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Third Person 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a third-person perspective and a focus on surviving in a harsh, frozen wasteland, mirroring the atmospheric tension of the seed game.

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Survival 10.4%, Nudity 10.1%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers incredibly deep, realistic survival mechanics including detailed calorie, metabolism, and health management.

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 37.2% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the cold-weather survival experience, requiring players to manage body temperature and resources carefully.

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 42.1% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric singleplayer survival game that prioritizes exploration and a peaceful yet demanding wilderness experience.

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 51.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival experience centered on island exploration, resource management, and overcoming the elements.

Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Nudity 11.5%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers realistic island survival with complex crafting systems and detailed environmental simulation.

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.8%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct survival experience that focuses on open-world exploration and basic resource gathering.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 15.8%, Nudity 13.5%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust third-person survival experience with extensive crafting and building systems in a vast open world.

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Walking Simulator 8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric cold-weather survival experience that mirrors the isolation found in the seed game.

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 39.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on exploration and resource gathering in a varied wilderness.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.7%, Nature 7%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that incorporates crafting mechanics within an open-world setting.

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% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense survival mechanics and environmental interaction in a dangerous, open-world island setting.

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 44.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 12%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A third-person survival game with a strong emphasis on exploration, crafting, and building in a vast, atmospheric world.

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13%, Open World 12%, FPS 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features base-building and survival mechanics in an open-world setting with a focus on long-term sustainability.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 30.9%, Open World 26.1%, Crafting 19%, Sandbox 9.4%, Exploration 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A modern survival experience that builds on its predecessor with deeper crafting and more complex environmental interactions.

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 36.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and the freedom to navigate a large, open environment.

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 40.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on base-building and crafting to survive against the elements.

Erzurum is a winter survival game which you will struggle against freezing temperatures, the wild nature, hunger and thirst.

Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 15.2%, Nature 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cold-weather survival game that focuses on resource management and exploration in a harsh, snowy landscape.

Survive a harsh, alluring open world in this 18+ survival RPG. Craft gear, build your home, customize your character, and command dragons! Explore deep dungeons and battle fierce monsters. Fight to win, or succumb to your desires with a fully integrated sex defeat and pregnancy system.

Why similar: Nudity 32.1%, Open World 20.4%, Survival 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that balances crafting and exploration in a dangerous world.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.1%

Megacraft Hentai Apocalipsis - This is a first person shooter set in a low poly open world. How long can you survive in the post-apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Nudity 10.2%, Survival 9.9%, Nature 8.6%

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: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 7.5%

The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Female Protagonist 8.2%

Survive a 3rd-person horror world facing relentless bosses and alluring undead. Manage your inventory, make every bullet count, craft and repair clothes, which can mean the difference between survival and death. Sometimes, hiding from towering enemies may be your only chance when brute force fails.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.1%, Nudity 24.8%, Third Person 17.4%, Violent 13.2%, Action 5.7%

Prologue: Go Wayback! is a single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike where every journey is unique. Traverse a new wilderness that is generated for you every time you play. Chart your path, overcome the elements, and write your own story of exploration.

Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Open World 19.7%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Female Protagonist 15%, Nature 9.4%

You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.

Why similar: Crafting 16%, Survival 15.1%, Nudity 14.7%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 13.2%

Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.

Why similar: Open World 24.5%, Sandbox 23.6%, Survival 23.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Simulation 8.2%

Stay alive fighting with the bandits and zombies. Hunt animals, build houses.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19%, Survival 13.3%, Violent 13.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Crafting 10.5%

Explore dark locations, solve puzzles, and uncover a gripping story. Fight or evade bloodthirsty zombies using wit and agility. Immerse yourself in a tense adventure with a charming blonde heroine in a chilling, atmospheric world.

Why similar: Nudity 35.3%, Female Protagonist 25.3%, Third Person 16%, Exploration 12.5%, 3D 5.1%

Albatroz is a backpacking adventure RPG that will take you through majestic landscapes in search of your lost sibling. A tale about knowing when to let go and start over.

Why similar: Survival 19%, Nature 15.9%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Open World 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12.1%

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 38.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Nudity 6.1%

⚗️ 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 34.1% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 11%

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 41.9% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.3%, Nature 7.6%

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 45.4% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 8%, Simulation 5.3%

This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?

Why similar: Nudity 30.4%, Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 9.5%

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 42.5% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10.7%

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 40.3% ★, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Third Person 7.1%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Crafting 26.7%, Open World 26.7%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 3.3%

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 43.7% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.4%, Third Person 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 39.1% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 12%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Simulation 2.9%

You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

Why similar: Survival 28.6%, Open World 20.4%, Nudity 15.2%, Violent 14.6%, Simulation 7.7%

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Nature 7.7%

Megacraft Hentai Survival is an open-world shooter where you decide where to go and what to do, your fate is in your hands. How long can you survive in a cubic post-Apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Nudity 12.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 7.1%

In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?

Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Open World 18.9%, Survival 18.7%, FPS 16.1%, Sandbox 14.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.

Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Open World 16.7%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Exploration 10.3%