Games Like ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 30.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the direct remake of ARK, preserving the same dinosaur taming, breeding, base-building, and PvP/PvE survival loop with a modernized presentation.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like ARK, it combines open-world survival crafting with creature capture, base automation, mounts, and multiplayer progression.

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 28.7% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 10.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is essentially a blocky ARK variant that keeps the same core ideas of taming creatures, building bases, and surviving in a multiplayer sandbox.

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: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 11.5%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers one of the closest non-dinosaur substitutes for ARK’s loop of gathering, crafting, building fortified bases, and surviving on online servers.

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 38.5% ★, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same co-op survival itch with dangerous wildlife, layered crafting progression, and elaborate base-building in 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This offers ARK-like survival and base-building with mounts, traversal progression, and a world where the environment itself feels full of giant threats.

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 41.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more mythic than prehistoric, it nails ARK’s sense of gathering, building, boss progression, and surviving a dangerous world with friends.

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 51.1% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Massively Multiplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: If the dinosaur ecosystem is your favorite part of ARK, this is one of the strongest alternatives thanks to its tense multiplayer survival and creature-focused play.

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: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival structure, tribal progression, mount use, and large-scale base-building make it feel very close to ARK’s long-form sandbox grind.

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 Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Open World 12.5%, Survival 12%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It feels like a fantasy cousin to ARK thanks to its open-world survival, base-building, multiplayer focus, and tameable flying creatures.

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 51.5% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 9.4%, Massively Multiplayer 9.3%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: It is another strong dinosaur survival game centered on growing, surviving, and interacting with other players in a living prehistoric 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 45.9% ★, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: This leans harder into realism, but its demanding survival systems, crafting, and co-op jungle exploration will appeal to ARK players who enjoy harsh PvE survival.

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 39.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the same satisfying resource grind, tech progression, and cooperative survival loop, just in mission-based alien wildernesses instead of dinosaur islands.

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 54.3% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7.4%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-ended survival, crafting, and base defense with a threatening world that creates the same constant pressure ARK fans often enjoy.

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 32.2% ★, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks taming, but few games match ARK’s tension of gathering, building, raiding, and trying to survive other players in a persistent open world.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its online survival structure, territory building, monster-filled world, and long-term progression make it a strong fit for players who like ARK’s persistent sandbox feel.

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 16%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter but very satisfying co-op survival builder centered on crafting, expanding your home, and steadily overcoming environmental threats.

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 23.6%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes The Forest’s formula with better building, co-op survival, and a more immersive world to scavenge, defend, and gradually master.

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 49.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures ARK’s stranded-survivor fantasy on a smaller scale with crafting, shelter building, and constant environmental danger.

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: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 11.7%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Base Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer world, base construction, taming, and large-scale progression make it one of the better ARK-like sandboxes outside the creature focus.

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: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.7%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong survival crafting sandbox with base-building, vehicles, online servers, and a clear emphasis on long-term progression and defense.

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 46% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.7%, Massively Multiplayer 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed survival systems, open-world PvP, and base-building make it a good match for players who enjoyed ARK’s harsher sandbox side.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes survival crafting, estate building, exploration, and co-op progression in a big fantasy sandbox that can scratch ARK’s discovery-and-build loop.

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 45.8% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on the same slow-burn loop of gathering, crafting, fortifying a base, and surviving a hostile world over long sessions.

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 43.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its island survival, base construction, and multiplayer emphasis make it a decent lower-ranked alternative for ARK players who like sandbox survival servers.

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 21.1%, Open World 16.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although more action-focused, it offers a similarly addictive cycle of gathering resources, building a home base, unlocking tech tiers, and surviving in a hostile world.

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a streamlined version of ARK’s survival-PvP formula with open-world resource gathering, crafting, and base-building.

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 46% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Co-op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, modular base-building, online co-op, and hostile survival setting make it a solid choice for players who enjoy ARK’s sandbox progression.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 27.9%, Open World 20.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 13%, Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of ARK is growing from scavenger to settlement builder, this offers that same long-term satisfaction through crafting, construction, and cooperative world progression.

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 46.7% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%

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 39.1% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8%, Massively Multiplayer 6.2%

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 66.8% ★, Survival 21.7%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Open World 2.5%, Co-op 2.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 7.8%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.8% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.5%, Dragons 6.3% ★

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Building 7%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.6%

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 5.6%

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 15.1%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Sandbox 6.3%

The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 20.3%, Crafting 8.8%, First-Person 3.2%

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 37.5% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 7.7%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 7.4%

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 7%

Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Dinosaurs 15.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 10.9%, Base Building 7.8%

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 60.7% ★, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 6.6%, Open World 4.9%, Survival 3.7%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 10.8%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Dinosaurs 20.7% ★, Survival 10.1%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%

Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Crafting 5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Open World 14.1%, Survival 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Crafting 5.6%

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 24.5%, Open World 18.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Survival 9.3%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 6.1%

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 38.4% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8%, Base Building 6.9%, Crafting 6.7%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9%, Building 8.8%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Open World 6.9%, Sandbox 6%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 20.8%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Crafting 5.9%