Games Like ARK: Survival Ascended

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 30.8% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original ARK delivers the same core loop of taming, breeding, riding, fighting, and building alongside dinosaurs in a huge multiplayer survival sandbox.

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 23.4%, Survival 22.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival structure, creature capture and breeding, automated bases, multiplayer servers, and rideable companions make it one of the closest modern alternatives to ARK.

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 27.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 11.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This lighter, voxel-styled ARK spin-off retains dinosaur taming, crafting, exploration, base construction, and cooperative survival.

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

Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Base Building 18%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This tribal survival sandbox emphasizes building settlements, recruiting and controlling tribespeople, taming mounts, crafting, and surviving a hostile open world.

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: Survival 17.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 14%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival gameplay features base-building, exploration, crafting, combat, and taming insect-like mounts in a dangerous oversized natural world.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 18.8%, Survival 18.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines approachable co-op survival, deep freeform building, crafting progression, exploration, and boss-driven adventure in a large fantasy world.

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Survival 12%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This persistent multiplayer survival game similarly mixes open-world resource gathering, base construction, vehicle progression, faction conflict, and environmental danger.

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: Survival 25.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 17%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It translates ARK-like co-op survival, base defense, crafting, exploration, and creature mounts into a dense backyard ecosystem.

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: Survival 29.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Players gather materials, build elaborate bases, fight insects, and cooperate through a hazardous miniature wilderness with a strong survival-crafting loop.

Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Open World 21.2%, Massively Multiplayer 16.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy survival sandbox pairs open-world crafting and construction with tameable mythical creatures, mounts, magic, and multiplayer progression.

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: Survival 19.1%, Open World 16.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13%, Building 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared-world survival gameplay centers on gathering, crafting, building estates, exploring dangerous realms, and progressing with friends through supernatural wildernesses.

Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!

Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Open World 18.6%, Massively Multiplayer 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: ARK's pirate-themed sibling features massive multiplayer survival, building, taming animals, sailing custom ships, treasure hunting, and territorial conflict.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Open World 17.6%, Building 16.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This large-scale multiplayer sandbox focuses on survival, crafting, animal taming, settlement construction, guild warfare, and progression through a persistent world.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 20%, Open World 17.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim offers excellent co-op exploration, procedural wilderness, building, crafting, boss progression, sailing, and a satisfying sense of creating a fortified home.

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 23.9%, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 18%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful sandbox combines survival gathering, automation, dungeon exploration, monster catching, mounts, farming, and multiplayer building freedom.

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Open World 20.8%, Survival 16.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an open multiplayer survival world where players build bases, craft gear, fly on brooms, and tame dragons and other magical creatures.

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 51.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Massively Multiplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: While it lacks ARK's building systems, its tense multiplayer dinosaur survival and ecosystem-focused gameplay strongly suit players who want to inhabit a prehistoric world.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent online survival world supports extensive building, resource gathering, exploration, combat, vehicles, and collecting unusual creatures to assist at your base.

Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?

Why similar: Dinosaurs 48.6% ★, Survival 15.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This dinosaur and creature survival game emphasizes multiplayer growth, environmental threats, nesting, herds, and evolving into specialized prehistoric animals.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 16.3%, Open World 15.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Massively Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival-action structure lets players harvest resources, build and decorate castles, defeat powerful foes, and cooperate or compete on persistent servers.

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: Survival 22.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: ICARUS delivers demanding co-op PvE survival with gathering, crafting, building, hunting, technology progression, and hazardous alien biomes.

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 60.1% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 15%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: Saurian offers a more simulation-oriented prehistoric survival experience for players especially interested in inhabiting and surviving as scientifically grounded dinosaurs.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 26.6%, Open World 17.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world crafting, fortification building, scavenging, co-op survival, and recurring attacks that reward elaborate defensive bases.

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 30.1%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Rust is a more PvP-focused but highly influential open-world survival game built around scavenging, crafting, raiding, player-made bases, and tense multiplayer encounters.

Day of Dragons is an online creature survival game set in a large, beautiful, sandbox open world with multiple biomes and distinct creatures. Rule the world as one of several dragon species, or play as an elemental.

Why similar: Survival 21.2%, Open World 17.3%, Massively Multiplayer 15.5%, Multiplayer 12%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a multiplayer survival experience centered on living as a dragon, growing over time, nesting, exploring, and navigating dangerous ecosystems.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Survival 16.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world multiplayer survival game offers gathering, crafting, vehicle use, trap-filled base construction, exploration, and player-versus-player conflict.

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: Survival 28.6%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Open World 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Raft replaces dinosaurs with ocean survival but shares ARK's satisfying co-op loop of gathering materials, expanding a customizable home base, crafting, and exploring dangerous worlds.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Massively Multiplayer 16.7%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer survival sandbox features mobile player-built bases, crafting, resource competition, clan play, and a distinctive nomadic world to explore.

Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 53.5% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8%, Open World 6%

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: Survival 27.4%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its immersive jungle survival emphasizes resource management, crafting, shelter-building, exploration, and cooperative endurance against a hostile natural environment.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Open World 19.3%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 53.1% ★, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 7.9%, Survival 3.6%

ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 39.8% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Massively Multiplayer 7.2%

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 58.6% ★, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 5.3%, Survival 3.4%

Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 55.8% ★, Open World 14.4%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Sci-fi 4.3%

On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.

Why similar: Open World 20.3%, Survival 19.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Come to the world of beasts 95 million years ago, you can experience prey, grow, die, and survive as best you can.As you grow, you will hone your speed, stamina, and aggression to become the king of the century.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 55.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.1%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%

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: Survival 15%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.6%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%

A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 70.9% ★, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 5.9%, Survival 5.4%, PvP 2.9%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Open World 19.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.

Why similar: Crafting 31.9%, Base Building 24.1%, Character Customization 20.7%, RPG 8.8%, Adventure 7.9%

In ARK Park, engage in close encounters with primal species through a series of theme park attractions. Enter by yourself or with a group of adventurous friends, and witness dinosaurs roaming in the wild with your own eyes!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 65.4% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 4.8%, Adventure 4.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 32.6%, Open World 26%, Multiplayer 13.8%, PvP 12.5%, PvE 11.3%

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 87.5% ★, Adventure 6.7%, Action 5.8%

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Survival 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.9%

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 42.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.2%

An asteroid is hurtling toward the planet! Sneak, scavenge and blast your way through an immersive prehistoric world filled with Humans, Dinosaurs, Droids and Mother Nature’s fury!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 76.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Adventure 5.5%, Action 4.6%

TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 24.1% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 12.3%

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 24.6%, Open World 19.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%

Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 74.6% ★, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 7.5%, Action 2.8%, Sci-fi 2.1%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Open World 22.8%, Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Base Building 9.3%

Hunt humans, slay dinosaurs. It's chaotic prehistoric PvP, pick a side. Think fast, or you're extinct!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 62.8% ★, Multiplayer 13.9%, Character Customization 10.1%, PvP 9.5%, Action 2.9%

SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 29.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.9%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 10%

Create your dragon, customize it, level it. Explore the world of Draconia and unravel its story. Draconia is an MORPG where YOU play as the dragon!

Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Open World 18.7%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Character Customization 10.3%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Open World 21.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%