- #1 Northern Lights
97% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
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 30.8% ★, Snow 12.5% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #2 Lysward
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Lysward is a single-player survival adventure set in a vast and unforgiving desert in the fantastical world of Umbra. Explore, craft, team up with your companion, and leverage the Amri magic to endure the heat.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 16.9%, Inventory Management 9.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #3 Until the Fire Dies
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crimson Cloud Games
Windows
A first-person survival horror game where daylight is spent chopping trees, splitting logs, and stacking firewood. When night falls, keep the campfire burning and survive the horrors waiting beyond its light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 14.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
- #4 Arid
95% matchVery Positive87% of 1,954 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Viscacha StudioPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.3%, Nature 9%, Inventory Management 8.1%
- #5 Canopy
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yuna Technologies
Windows
Canopy is a non-violent exploration crafting game set in the heart of the rainforest. Gather your friends and embark on an unforgettable cooperative adventure, where camaraderie is key, and teamwork is essential.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Nonlinear 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Nature 9.8%
- #6 Defend Till Sunshine
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EUZERU
Windows
Defend Till Sunshine is a exploration-survival game which you will experience with your puppy. You need to survive against multiple situations. Discover across the land, find villages, learn craft techniques, interact with villagers and learn tips from them, build your own house and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 16.3%, Nature 8.7%, Exploration 7.5%
- #7 FRIGID
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Celeritas Games
Windows
Hunt, build, craft and survive an apocalyptic arctic environment and unravel the mystery of a strange virus that is infecting the local wildlife. Inspired by The Thing!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Nature 8.7%
- #8 No Light
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 匠门电子科技有限公司
Windows
When wake up, you in a strange world. You must learn to be strong in this dangerous and dark world. Look for all the materials that can live, light the torch in hand, this light may be the last hope, but don't forget, in this boundless darkness, the light will also let "them" See you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.8% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Exploration 6.6%
- #9 Alone in the Outback
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Happy Dinosaur Games
Windows
Alone in the Outback is a story-driven survival experience. Traverse through the Australian outback, survive deadly heat of the day and cold of the night. Stay hydrated and choose your strategy to survive the dangerous Australian wildlife. Explore the territory to find out why you are here alone...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Realistic 8%, Inventory Management 7.5%
- #10 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,746 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 38.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Nature 8.5%, Immersive Sim 8.1%
- #11 Out of the Woods
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wi1dD0G Games
Windows
Out of the Woods is a research survival simulator game. The action takes place in an abandoned national park. The player will not have to fight zombies, monsters and other fantastic creatures, but the main enemy is no less dangerous, because it is nature itself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.3%, Nature 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.4%
- #12 Scorching Desert
89% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Desert Runner Studio
Windows
"Scorching Desert" is an open-world survival crafting game, where your main objective is to survive in a hot, unforgiving desert plagued by an ancient evil! You will need to gather resources, build a resillient shelter, stay hydrated & explore a massive 64km^2 Map!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Realistic 9.6%
- #13 Under A New Sun
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 391 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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 41.6% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.6%, Nature 7.7%, Realistic 6.8%
- #14 The Long Dark
88% matchVery Positive89% of 122,628 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 54.1% ★, Survival 18.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 5.6%, Exploration 5%
- #15 Permafrost
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SpaceRocket GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Snow 19.3% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 9%
- #16 My First Craft Survival
86% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: kuriemeiku
Windows
When I woke up, I found myself on an uninhabited island. And I had nothing with me! Anyway, the first priority is to find food to avoid starvation. At night, mysterious creatures attack, so I need to craft equipment and build a base to defend myself! In the end, there's a boss waiting for me!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Inventory Management 15.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #17 Endless Endless Ocean
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: okkg
Windows
Suddenly appearing in existence, clinging onto your fragile life, travel an endless ocean in a goal of finding out if you can escape. Survival isn't just about food and shelter, but you're bound to finding that out.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Inventory Management 14.2%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Realistic 9.3%
- #18 Bushcraft Survival
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Michael Jared Software
Windows · Linux
Alone. Hungry. Freezing. Test your grit in this unforgiving, Bushcraft Survival simulator set deep in the icy forests of Northern Canada. Collect resources, build shelters, hunt, fish, track, and trap in a brutal open world where every decision counts - and any mistake could be your last.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Snow 22.3% ★, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.4%
- #19 KeepUp Survival
84% matchMixed64% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Crafting 12%, Inventory Management 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Immersive Sim 9.4%
- #20 COLDNIGHTS
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Addiekin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Learn how to survive, craft and build the essentials, find source of food and construct necessary shelter before the snow starts falling. And may be someday, after building a bridge, you will find your way back home. Keep building bridges.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Snow 20.1% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.6%, Action-Adventure 5%
- #21 Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Folded Worlds
Windows
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Inventory Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #22 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Inventory Management 13.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #23 30 days to survive
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: HeXPub: Laush Studio
Windows
"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Inventory Management 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.7%
- #24 Primal Man Simulator
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 14.7%, Realistic 9.3%, Simulation 5.7%
- #25 POLYARIS
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magic Pie
Windows
Survive the Arctic in this first-person single-player game. Move by skis and boat, stay warm, dry, and hydrated, loot what's left behind, fight enemies, and escape the lonely north by any means. For fans of The Long Dark and other similar survival games.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Snow 17.7% ★, Inventory Management 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
- #26 Arctico
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,498 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Snow 12.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Nature 8.5%
- #27 Root Scourge
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Diakamos
Windows
An open world crafting game where surface is occupied by a mutated plant species. Humanity has been exiled and is living under the surface for hundreds of years. You are one of the few professionals that can roam the surface. As a mercenary, you take on jobs and face the root scourge on surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.3%, Exploration 6.9%
- #28 Wild
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Exploration 8%, Nature 7.6%
- #29 Starsand
78% matchMixed66% of 1,246 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 34.8% ★, Inventory Management 14.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #30 Mineval
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MinegamerFrance Studios
Windows
Explore, build, survive, and gather all the resources you need! Customize your hero with unique armor and outfits! Mineval listens to its community and will do everything to bring your ideas and suggestions to life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Simulation 16.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.4%, Realistic 9.2%
- #31 Stranded Deep
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,623 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 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 55.2% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 13.1%, Realistic 5.3%, Exploration 3.6%
- #32 The Rule of Land: Pioneers
77% matchMixed68% of 335 reviews2023
Dev: Horgee GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Inventory Management 15.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
- #33 Vantage: Primitive Survival Game
77% matchMixed58% of 76 reviews2021
Dev: Crystal Dragon
Windows
Vantage is a passion project created by a solo developer where your main objective is simple... to stay alive! You explore the massive world searching for food, creating primitive tools and weapons to hunt, and craft other items to make life easier. Play Online/Offline Multiplayer or Single Player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Inventory Management 15.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Survival 9.6%
- #34 The Gold River Project
75% matchMixed65% of 620 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Nature 7.1%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
- #35 Claycrafter
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: scoz
Windows
Gather resources, build structures, and craft increasingly wondrous items to unlock the secrets of a mysterious world made entirely out of clay.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Survival 6.3%
- #36 Deadly Desert
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GIPub: TBA
Windows
Deadly desert is a survival story of two men, a young boy and his disabled father. It all started with an unfortunate accident in the middle of Nevada desert. Unfortunately, their car broke down on the way. They were waiting a long time for any help and then decided to take life in their own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 14.4%, Realistic 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10%
- #37 Fade to Silence
75% matchMixed63% of 1,329 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 50.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Snow 8.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 5.2%
- #38 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
73% matchMixed53% of 159 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
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 41.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Exploration 6.5%, Realistic 6.1%
- #39 Mystery of Island
74% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: QUIKGAMES
Windows
Mystery of Island is a wilderness survival game. Various enemies, huge map to explore, collect resources to improve and strengthen yourself over time.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.1% ★, Survival 17.5%, Nature 9.5%, Inventory Management 9.2%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
- #40 Sol One
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: yeetgench
Windows
A grounded open-world survival crafting game where you're stranded alone on Mars. Explore the red planet, extract resources, build a pressurized base, manage oxygen, power, and food, and construct the rocket that's your only way home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
- #41 Project Canopy
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SocksandGoats Studios
Windows · Mac
Harvest, Build, Craft and Explore the different biomes among massive trees, plants, and hostile creatures to survive and unlock the mysteries of an alien jungle in a first person sci-fi survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Exploration 6.8%, Atmospheric 5.8%
- #42 Nord
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nord Studios
Windows
NORD is a story-driven survival game set in a flooded Swedish archipelago. Alone or with friends, engineer your raft to navigate a strange, petrifying ocean.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.4% ★, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 8%, Exploration 6.4%
- #43 Breathedge 2
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Sent on a reckless mission, you find yourself in outer space filled with numerous dangers and things to explore. Build, craft, manage your crew, look after the chicken, and defeat the evil space corporation in this new breathtaking survival game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Immersive Sim 8.5%, Simulation 6.5%
- #44 No Man's Home
69% matchVery Positive86% of 177 reviews2025
Dev: radrunner
Windows
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Inventory Management 11.6%
- #45 Migration
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Define Human
Windows
Survive as a crow through lands bound to cycles of warmth and frost. Endure hunger, thirst, and fatigue while paying attention to predators. Find allies among other animals, share resources, and decide when to leave before survival grows harsher.
Why similar: Snow 13.5% ★, Nature 12.8%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #46 Animallica
70% matchMixed70% of 908 reviews2022
Dev: Animallica Games Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 47.8% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Simulation 7.5%
- #47 BugOut
71% matchMostly Negative41% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: A2G Studios
Windows
First Person, Exploring, Surviving, Hunting, Foraging, Buiding, Hoarding, Looting, Prepping, Crafting Work against Time and Survive, Storms, Earthquakes, Nuclear Events, Radical Weather, and much more
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 13.3%, Immersive Sim 7.9%, Exploration 5.7%
- #48 Beneath the Snow Veil
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FODK Studio
Windows
"Beneath the Snow Veil" is an exploration survival game set in a frigid, post-apocalyptic world. Amid extreme weather and deadly cold, explore ruins, craft tools, repair and upgrade your shelter to withstand freezing temperatures, hunger, and lurking threats.
Why similar: Snow 27.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Inventory Management 13.5%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #49 Kind Heart Survivors
68% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: LUDO Thinking
Windows
Kind Heart Survivors is a space survival adventure that challenges you to survive on an unknown planet. Explore, gather resources, craft items, cook abundantly, and prove that you can survive anywhere in the galaxy.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Inventory Management 22.9%, Crafting 19.6%, Survival 16.8%, Exploration 9.2%
- #50 The Forest
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 676,820 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 57.8% ★, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Realistic 3%, Exploration 2.8%
- #51 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
70% 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 57.8% ★, Survival 18%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 1.8%
- #52 Gone Upstate
69% matchMostly Negative41% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: Digital Boxcar
Windows
Gone Upstate is a relaxed survival sandbox game where you Hunt, Build and Craft in a vibrant wilderness. Explore the vast landscape, escape dangerous predators, buy or craft supplies, sell your farm crops and uncover the mysterious creatures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Survival 15%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Exploration 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%
- #53 Category 6
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crafty Game Lab
Windows
Brace yourself for the ultimate open-world survival craft experience. Welcome to a world shattered by the relentless fury of the most colossal hurricane in history. Explore and gather resources for survival and crafting. Fight off aggressive wildlife and scavengers. Play story mode or survival mode
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Exploration 6%
- #54 Project: Mist
66% matchMixed70% of 206 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
Explore a strange island in this open-world survival horror. Use the Gravity Gun to manipulate objects and enemies, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within its abandoned facilities. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Realistic 8.3%
- #55 Island of the Lost
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JR_Development
Windows
Survive on a mysterious island, gather resources, craft tools, and build a ship to escape—or explore freely in a larger open-world survival mode.
Why similar: Inventory Management 16.6%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #56 Twilight Tails
67% matchMixed53% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: Prokopchuk Pavlo
Windows
Twilight Tails is a captivating game where you become a raccoon navigating a challenging forest. Fight for territory, survive changing seasons, and evolve in multiplayer adventures. Conquer the jungle, rule survival!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 12.6%, Nature 11.2%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #57 By My Side
66% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: OverLKD Studio
Windows
Survive the wild with a loyal dog at your side. Wash up with nothing, tame a stray and raise it as your companion — build and power a home, outlast brutal winters, and face a world that fights back.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Snow 17% ★, Inventory Management 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%
- #58 Forager
67% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 15%, Resource Management 7.3%, Exploration 3.1%
- #59 Voldark
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OzbalHan
Windows
Voldark is an open-world survival crafting game set in a dangerous forest filled with mutant creatures. Gather resources, craft tools and weapons, level up your character, build and defend your base while surviving relentless nighttime attacks.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 14%, Inventory Management 12%, Immersive Sim 7.9%