- #1 Grounded
97% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 26.5% ★, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 8.9%
- #2 Lost Track
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Junkyard Games
Windows
Survive alongside your companions in the outskirts of a town after a supernatural experimental accident. Gather survival resources, upgrade your vehicles and mobile fortress, and explore unknown areas to gradually uncover the truth behind the experiment…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.6%
- #3 Green Hell
96% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 32.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #4 Unhinged
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unifiq Games
Windows
Survive a brutal corporate death game on an alien planet. Craft and assemble components into machines and automated production systems. Harness power, cultivate exotic plants, brew herbal tonics and synthesize chaotic drugs, all while managing your sanity in a detailed mental simulation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Survival Horror 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #5 Nightingale
94% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 26.4% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #6 Grounded 2
94% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.2%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #7 Far Lands
93% matchMixed66% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 8.3%
- #8 ICARUS
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #9 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 33.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #10 Wildsite
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.6%
- #11 The Gold River Project
90% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 7.8%
- #12 The Last Viking
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Base Building 12%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.9%
- #13 Rooted
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
In this solo and multiplayer survival game, explore an ancient overgrown world full of dangers. Salvage, build, craft, hunt,.. and try to survive alone or with your friends in an evolving and fascinating post-apocalyptic environment. Powered by Unreal Engine 5.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 8.6%, Survival Horror 8.1%
- #14 MISERY
87% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival Horror 9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #15 Solace Crafting
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #16 Aurendor
86% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.4%
- #17 Planetaries
86% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Open World 8.2%
- #18 Nighthold
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8%, Survival 7%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #19 Valheim
84% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 29.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.9%
- #20 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
83% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 25.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
- #21 THE LAST BREATH
84% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Y Games
Windows
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Survival Horror 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #22 Sons Of The Forest
81% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival Horror 13%, Open World 11.7%, Co-op 11.1%
- #23 The Forest of Black Eden
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZEREF
Windows
Stranded on an island crawling with terrifying creatures, you must survive, build, and uncover its dark secrets. Escape or be one of them with lost dream.
Why similar: Base Building 13.2%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Co-op 10.3%
- #24 SkyCraft
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.3%
- #25 Moon Colony Crafter
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.7%
- #26 Hauntsville
80% matchMixed65% of 221 reviews2025
Dev: Michael JanischPub: indie.io
Windows
You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!
Why similar: Survival Horror 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 8.6%
- #27 Nested Lands
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Co-op 8%
- #28 Elysium
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artifika Games
Windows · Mac
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 7.9%
- #29 Lodventure
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Co-op 10.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 9.2%
- #30 Primal Man Simulator
78% 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 32.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #31 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
77% matchMixed55% of 102 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 29.3% ★, Survival 11%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%
- #32 The Wild Eight
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 14.3%, Co-op 8.6%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%
- #33 Shamania
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.3%
- #34 KeepUp Survival
75% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 8.9%
- #35 Odd Woods
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Survival 10.1%
- #36 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
73% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.5% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
- #37 Fade to Silence
76% matchMixed63% of 1,317 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 36.7% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #38 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
73% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Open World 8.3%
- #39 Subsistence
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 39.4% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 9%
- #40 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
74% matchMostly Negative36% of 365 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #41 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Crafting 10%, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Open World 8.4%
- #42 Good Heavens!
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows
Good Heavens! Is an open-world crafting and building RPG. Embark on a solo adventure or team up with up friends, picking your tool of choice – sword, wand, or carpenter's hammer. Navigate the quirky races and cultures of the promised lands and restore them to their, ahem, intended glory.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
- #43 Cataclysm Upon Us
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival Horror 8%
- #44 Voidtrain
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Base Building 10%, Co-op 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8%
- #45 Night City
71% matchNegative17% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Bootur Games
Windows
"Night City" is a cooperative first-person horror game with survival elements, here you will play as one of the company's clones, and go down into the dungeons to search for resources. Death will be waiting at every step, so work as a team.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 8%, Survival Horror 7.7%
- #46 Subnautica
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 31% ★, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.8%
- #47 Subnautica: Below Zero
70% matchVery Positive90% of 102,346 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.1%
- #48 Drift: Space Survival
71% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #49 Determinant
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Khor Chin Heong
Windows
Realistic physics-based open-world survival game set in the future. Survival, crafting, exploration and base building are the main focus. Hunt for food and water and survive against environmental hazards. Combat is possible, but more defensive in nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.6%, Physics 8.5%
- #50 Project Castaway
67% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 27.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 9.6%, Survival 8.6%
- #51 Dawn of the Dying
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cube Game Studio
Windows
In a brutal open world, standing still means death. Explore together in a co-op survival FPS where crafting, building, and fighting with friends is the only way forward.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #52 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
- #53 StarRupture
66% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Co-op 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #54 Impossible Survival
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Everything attacks you in unexpected and hilarious ways in this experimental survival crafting game. Can you beat it? Co-op supported!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.5%
- #55 WILDLANDS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ahsen Games
Windows
Dive into a unique adventure that will put you against a world ruled by natural forces! Explore, craft, battle predators, tame animals, build homes, harvest crops & so much more. Gather your friends, grab a weapon, and head out to conquer the WILDLANDS!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Online Co-Op 6.1%
- #56 Alight: Lunar Survival
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
[GAME CANCELLED] Stranded in the darkness, survive and build a base scattered across the lunar surface to generate electricity and alight the moon as you upgrade your equipment, struggle for oxygen, and escape fearsome monsters. Singleplayer only, you will survive, gather, craft, build, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Survival 8.7%
- #57 Survival Machine
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 9.3%
- #58 GRAV
70% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 37.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9%
- #59 GreenMars: Expedition 744
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 744 Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival game where you explore a full planet, gather resources, build your base, deploy terraforming machines and drones, and begin turning hostile Martian terrain into the foundation of a new civilisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Co-op 11.2%, Open World 8.1%, Action-Adventure 7.5%