Games Like Arid

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 31.9% ★, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Inventory Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the desert survival theme of Arid, focusing on heat management and navigating a vast, unforgiving landscape.

Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.3% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, First-Person 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique desert survival experience where you must build and manage an airship to escape the scorching heat and dangers below.

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 46.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deeply realistic survival experience that emphasizes managing physical and mental health in a hostile, isolated environment.

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 41.7% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the feeling of being alone on a desolate, barren world where you must survive and terraform the environment.

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 52.6% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for environmental survival, focusing on the struggle against extreme cold and the isolation of the wilderness.

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 47.5% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar sense of isolation and survival, requiring players to manage resources while exploring a harsh, open-world environment.

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 39.2% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a massive open-world with a significant desert biome that requires careful survival management and crafting.

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 39.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes exploration, resource gathering, and surviving the hazards of a dangerous planet.

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 45.2% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 11%, Open World 7.7%, Exploration 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival in a hostile, alien environment where resource management is key to staying alive.

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 47.5% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting in a vast, open environment that forces players to adapt to their surroundings to survive.

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 39.2% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an exploration-focused survival experience with a unique perspective on nature and the environment.

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 42.1% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Open World 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep crafting and survival mechanics set within a nature-focused, open-world environment.

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 47.7% ★, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%, First-Person 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a survival experience in a desolate, hazardous environment that requires constant resource management.

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 45.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration-driven survival with robust base-building mechanics in a harsh, procedurally generated world.

⚗️ 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 30% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Inventory Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes resource management and exploration in an open-world setting.

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 42.8% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game set in a vast, open nautical world.

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 33.1% ★, Survival 21%, Crafting 15.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes intense crafting, base building, and navigating a dangerous open world.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features survival and exploration with unique base-building mechanics in a volcanic, hostile environment.

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 41.9% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 7.7%, Nature 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival in a vibrant, open-world setting with crafting at its core.

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 38.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival in a harsh, cold environment with a strong emphasis on exploration.

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 26.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and exploration in an isolated, dangerous wilderness with complex crafting systems.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Open World 10%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers expansive exploration and survival mechanics across diverse, often hostile, planetary environments.

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59% ★, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6.5%, Multiplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and exploration in an isolated, mysterious environment filled with hidden dangers.

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 49.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic survival and base-building experience in an open-world setting.

ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.

Why similar: Nature 22.1%, Crafting 22%, Survival 19.2%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Exploration 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the female protagonist and exploration themes in a harsh, historically-inspired setting.

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: Survival 32.7%, Open World 31.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Exploration 9%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused RPG that places heavy emphasis on environmental management and preparation for exploration.

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 41.7% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers survival and crafting mechanics with a strong focus on open-world exploration.

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 37.9% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%

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 36.1% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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% ★, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 6.9%

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 54.7% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 7.8%, Multiplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features survival in a harsh, frozen wasteland where managing resources and environmental hazards is critical.

A realistic survival journey through challenging environments using simple real-world techniques. Manage calories, exhaustion, and nature’s dangers as you adapt and push forward. Stay alert as nature responds to your actions, ensuring no two attempts ever play the same.

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

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 38.1% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8.2%

Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.8% ★, Survival 15.9%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8%

CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Nature 9.9%

Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 8.3%

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 57.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Open World 7.5%

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 40.7% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Survival 7.9%

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 50.2% ★, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 4.7%

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 48.2% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.1% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.1%

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

Why similar: Survival 16.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Nature 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 9.6%

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 51.7% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 6%, Sandbox 3.5%

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 38.6% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Nature 7.3%, Inventory Management 7.2%

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 41.9% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 7.2%, Exploration 6.2%

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 40.4% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 47.3% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Exploration 5.7%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 6.5%

Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 6.6%

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 48.6% ★, Survival 20.4%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 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 40.9% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 10.7%, Nature 8.5%, Open World 8.1%

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 48% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 8.7%

Seized by criminals, the island designated for your research needs your help. Join Yatziri and the Wazhari tribe to liberate their hostages, explore hidden secrets, craft essential items and weapons, and strategically use fire and water in challenging puzzles and life-or-death battles for survival.

Why similar: Crafting 15%, Survival 14.2%, Nature 12.4%, Open World 10.4%, Inventory Management 9.8%

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 48.2% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 9.1%, Female Protagonist 6.3%