- #1 ARK: Survival Ascended
97% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 30.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest possible match, essentially rebuilding ARK’s dinosaur taming, tribe warfare, exploration, and base-building sandbox with newer tech.
- #2 Palworld
96% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 12.6%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival loop, creature capture and automation, co-op play, and base progression make it feel like a lighter, more playful cousin to ARK.
- #3 PixARK
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,223 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 11%, Massively Multiplayer 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It takes ARK’s survival-and-taming formula almost wholesale and remixes it into a blocky voxel world with extensive building freedom.
- #4 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 41.6% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 9.2%, Building 7.4%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its satisfying build-explore-survive loop and excellent co-op progression make it one of the best alternatives for players who loved ARK’s sandbox structure.
- #5 ATLAS
95% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 18.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: From the same lineage of survival design, it offers large-scale multiplayer, taming, base-building, and territorial ambition in a pirate setting.
- #6 Soulmask
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 37% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a very ARK-like progression arc of surviving the wilds, building a stronghold, taming systems of control, and managing a growing tribe.
- #7 ICARUS
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 39.6% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same itch for cooperative survival, crafting progression, dangerous wildlife, and building up from primitive tools to advanced tech.
- #8 Grounded
92% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 38.8% ★, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures ARK’s blend of base-building, resource gathering, hostile creature encounters, and multiplayer survival in a more handcrafted world.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 35.7% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting, mountable creatures, open-world exploration, and shared bases make it feel surprisingly close to ARK at a miniature scale.
- #10 Rust
91% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 32.4% ★, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of ARK was the ruthless PvP sandbox, raiding, and tension of building while other players threaten everything, Rust is a top fit.
- #11 Raft
90% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 41.4% ★, Survival 16%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It trades dinosaurs for the ocean, but the co-op gathering, crafting, base expansion, and constant survival pressure feel very familiar.
- #12 Enshrouded
89% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Survival 22.2%, Open World 19.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: Although more action-RPG flavored, it offers a strong mix of exploration, crafting, building, and co-op progression that will appeal to ARK base-builders.
- #13 Green Hell
89% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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% ★, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the survival side more heavily, but its crafting, shelter-building, co-op, and environmental danger hit a similar core loop.
- #14 Nightingale
87% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 38.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting, big world exploration, cooperative play, and steady equipment-and-base progression align well with ARK’s adventurous survival feel.
- #15 Citadel: Forged with Fire
88% matchMixed68% of 5,894 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 36.6% ★, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is one of the closest fantasy equivalents to ARK, with survival systems, base-building, taming, and flying mounts in a magical world.
- #16 Myth of Empires
86% matchMixed68% of 17,524 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 229.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 42.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is a large-scale multiplayer survival game with taming, building, crafting, and clan-based conquest that echoes ARK’s tribe-centric gameplay.
- #17 The Forest
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,573 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 54.6% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the same addictive cycle of scavenging, building a defendable home, and surviving increasingly dangerous threats with friends.
- #18 The Front
85% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 35.3% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.8%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival, base-building, automation, and multiplayer combat in a way that closely matches ARK’s sandbox appeal.
- #19 Stranded Deep
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 49.5% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a slower and more grounded survival experience, but the crafting, shelter-building, and constant fight to stay alive will feel familiar.
- #20 Sons Of The Forest
82% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 23.7%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its stronger visuals and modern survival systems deliver a compelling mix of crafting, fortification, exploration, and co-op tension.
- #21 Subnautica
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 47% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.2%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: While mostly single-player, its creature-filled world, survival crafting, and thrill of exploring dangerous unknown biomes strongly echo ARK’s discovery loop.
- #22 The Isle
84% matchVery Positive80% of 119,173 reviews2015
Dev: Afterthought LLC
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 122.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 51.3% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Massively Multiplayer 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It drops the crafting side, but surviving as and around dinosaurs in a multiplayer ecosystem makes it a strong thematic recommendation for ARK’s creature fans.
- #23 SCUM
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 126,382 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 104.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 11.8%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: For players who liked ARK’s harsher multiplayer survival and long-term persistence, SCUM offers a similarly demanding open-world sandbox.
- #24 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 18.9%, Open World 10.5%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: Its deep crafting, open-world scavenging, base defense, and multiplayer survival progression make it a natural fit for ARK fans.
- #25 Beasts of Bermuda
82% matchMixed69% of 9,734 reviews2018
Dev: Sastrei Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 22.1 hrsMean: 336.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 17.3%, Open World 9.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: Like The Isle, it leans into dinosaur survival and multiplayer ecosystems for players who mostly loved ARK’s prehistoric creature fantasy.
- #26 Once Human
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 182,222 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival, base-building, co-op, and bizarre creature threats into a persistent sandbox that overlaps well with ARK’s appeal.
- #27 Dark and Light
81% matchMixed52% of 11,834 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 26.9% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 15.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Sandbox 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy survival sandbox includes building, taming, mounts, and multiplayer progression that make it mechanically close to ARK despite a different theme.
- #28 Subsistence
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 46.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its solo-or-co-op survival loop of gathering, crafting, building, and defending your home base makes it a decent lower-tier match for ARK fans.
- #29 Hurtworld
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 39.2% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a streamlined open-world survival game centered on resource gathering, building, and PvP conflict in a dangerous persistent world.
- #30 Conan Exiles Enhanced
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,196 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 35.7% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 11.6%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #31 ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest
78% matchMixed66% of 11,805 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 27%
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 39.2% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Massively Multiplayer 6.2%
- #32 Don't Starve Together
75% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67% ★, Survival 21.5%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Open World 2.5%, Co-op 2.2%
- #33 Reign Of Kings
77% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 44.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.8%
- #34 Savage Lands
75% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 48% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.4%, Dragons 6.3% ★
- #35 Terraria
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 7%, Building 7%
- #36 Out of Reach
76% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 43.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #37 GRAV
76% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 45.1% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.5%
- #38 Miscreated
74% matchMixed66% of 31,591 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 52.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Crafting 5.5%
- #39 Rem Survival
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 37.7% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #40 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
70% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #41 Life is Feudal: Your Own
73% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 44.1% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 7.4%
- #42 No Man's Sky
71% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.5% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Crafting 5.5%
- #43 Mesorift Survival
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
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 40.6% ★, Dinosaurs 15.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11%, Base Building 7.7%
- #44 Necesse
67% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 48% ★, Survival 9.2%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #45 Spirit Animal Survival
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: TRUEFX GAMES Pub: TRUEFX GAMES
Windows
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 29.8% ★, Dinosaurs 20.8% ★, Survival 10.1%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.4%
- #46 Jurassic World Evolution
70% matchVery Positive87% of 55,268 reviews2018
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 60.9% ★, Building 18.6%, Sandbox 6.5%, Open World 5%, Survival 3.6%
- #47 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
71% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 52.3% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 5%
- #48 Starbound
69% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 50.9% ★, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Open World 6.9%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #49 Creativerse
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 9.1%, Building 8.8%
- #50 Fragmented
71% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 51.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Crafting 6.1%
- #51 Grounded 2
66% matchVery Positive81% of 23,765 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 33.2% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%
- #52 Project Castaway
66% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 38.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.8%, Crafting 6.7%
- #53 Far Cry® Primal
67% matchVery Positive86% of 41,079 reviews2016
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40% ★, Survival 21.6%, Open World 20.6%, Crafting 8.7%, First-Person 3.2%
- #54 Dune: Awakening
64% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 10.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.6%
- #55 Force of Nature
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 7.9%, Building 6.2%
- #56 Project Zomboid
66% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 38.8% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Crafting 5.8%
- #57 Stone Rage
68% matchMixed49% of 167 reviews2020
Dev: Mountainwheel Games
Windows
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 43.1% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 10.6%, Massively Multiplayer 9.1%, Sandbox 5.1%
