- #1 Cube Life: Island Survival
97% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Crafting 38.1%, Adventure 36%, Indie 25.9%
- #2 Bermuda Survivor
96% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch ModePub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Bermuda Survivor is a unique blend of bullet heaven and world exploration. Your goal is to survive the hordes of enemies and discover the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle. Each run will provide you with new unlockables, story bits, NPC-related quests, and optimal paths to achieve victory!
Why similar: Action 37.4%, Adventure 33.1%, Crafting 21.5%, Indie 8%
- #3 Forsaken Isle
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 513 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Crafting 38.3%, Adventure 26.5%, Action 20.6%, Indie 14.7%
- #4 Lost Skies
94% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Crafting 32.1%, Action 30.4%
- #5 Radiation Island
95% matchVery Positive81% of 629 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Adventure 31.4%, Action 27.5%, Crafting 22.6%, Indie 18.5%
- #6 FEROCIOUS
94% matchMixed64% of 773 reviews2025
Dev: OMYOGPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Immerse yourself in a survival FPS adventure. Stranded on a dangerous island, face mercenaries, dinosaurs, and a vibrant yet hostile ecosystem. Explore breathtaking environments and survive the onslaught of intense, fast-paced encounters.
Why similar: FPS 48.9%, Action 27.8%, Adventure 23.3%
- #7 Len's Island
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Crafting 50.1%, Adventure 25%, Action 24.9%
- #8 Volcanoids
92% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Crafting 34.6%, FPS 32%, Action 17.3%, Adventure 16.1%
- #9 Crazy Islands
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Ge-Aivan
Windows
Welcome to "Crazy Islands", a 3D survival game for 1-4 players that takes you into a world full of mystery and challenges. On this isolated archipelago, you will face ancient gods, cruel natural environment and unknown dangers. Only wisdom and courage can help you survive in this unknown land.
Why similar: FPS 57.5%, Adventure 42.5%
- #10 Mesorift Survival
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 119 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: FPS 53.5%, Action 24.6%, Adventure 21.8%
- #11 Fragmented
90% 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: Crafting 41.2%, Action 24%, FPS 20.2%, Indie 14.6%
- #12 Stranded Deep
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 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: Crafting 61.1%, Adventure 23.3%, Action 10%, Indie 5.7%
- #13 Voxile
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Why similar: Voxel 58.8% ★, FPS 21.3%, Crafting 19.9%
- #14 Survival: Fountain of Youth
84% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Crafting 66.9%, Adventure 33.1%
- #15 Craterbound
86% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Crafting 40.9%, Voxel 40.6% ★, FPS 18.6%
- #16 Hold Your Own
85% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Crafting 31.5%, FPS 24%, Action 17.3%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 11.7%
- #17 Nira
84% matchMixed60% of 109 reviews2021
Dev: Baseline GamesPub: Graffiti Games
Windows
Explore procedurally generated islands in this fast-paced, sandbox survival adventure filled with building, crafting, fighting, farming and quests. Build a base, hunt, cook, battle ogres, make friends with a mysterious Totem, ride an alpaca, fly a plane and do whatever you need to survive.
Why similar: Crafting 51.9%, Adventure 27.5%, Indie 20.6%
- #18 Tinkerlands
81% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Crafting 40.8%, Adventure 23.6%, Indie 18.6%, Action 17%
- #19 PixARK
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 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: Voxel 39.6% ★, Crafting 17.6%, Adventure 17.2%, FPS 13%, Action 12.6%
- #20 Iridio
80% matchVery Positive90% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: KR Games
Windows
Seized by criminals, the island designated for your research needs your help. Join Yatziri and the Wazhari tribe to liberate their hostages, explore hidden secrets, craft essential items and weapons, and strategically use fire and water in challenging puzzles and life-or-death battles for survival.
Why similar: FPS 34%, Crafting 24.6%, Action 21.6%, Adventure 19.7%
- #21 Guncraft
83% matchMixed50% of 1,185 reviews2013
Dev: Exato Games StudioPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
NOTE - All previously sold DLC is now included in the game for free:Deep Cave Block PackUnder the Sea Block Pack Wild West Block PackUnique Skin PackHorror SFX PackSci-Fi SFX PackBlock and Load! Combining the addictive nature of block building sandbox games with the speed and competition of modern first-person shooters, Guncraft takes...
Why similar: Voxel 41.3% ★, FPS 27%, Action 19.4%, Indie 12.2%
- #22 Lay of the Land
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 971 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Voxel 59.5% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Action 13.3%, Adventure 12.9%
- #23 Crafting Block World
82% matchMixed47% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 61.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Action 9.6%, Adventure 9%, Indie 6.6%
- #24 Warlocks Quarry
79% matchVery Positive91% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Sub Orbital Software
Windows
Use your skills in looting, fighting, exploring and base building to survive and progress in Warlocks world.
Why similar: Voxel 46.4% ★, FPS 21.2%, Action 16.7%, Adventure 15.8%
- #25 PIRATECRAFT
79% matchMixed58% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Game for games
Windows
PIRATECRAFT is a game battle-royale (survival, action, first person shooter) for single or multiplayer game
Why similar: Voxel 56.4% ★, Crafting 24.3%, Action 10.6%, Adventure 8.7%
- #26 Away From Life
74% matchMixed69% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: FPS 35.6%, Crafting 33.9%, Action 16%, Adventure 14.5%
- #27 INMATE: Survival
76% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SV Games
Windows
INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
Why similar: Crafting 39.7%, FPS 21.3%, Adventure 20.1%, Action 18.9%
- #28 Deadfall Adventures
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,618 reviews2013
Dev: The Farm 51Pub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deadfall Adventures is an action-driven first-person shooter, spiced up with elements from action-adventure games. Become an adventurer, hunt for treasures, explore unknown regions of the world and rescue the damsel in distress from the clutches of enemies, both earthly and not-so-earthly.
Why similar: FPS 39.4%, Adventure 29.3%, Action 27.1%, Indie 4.2%
- #29 Rogue Islands
77% matchMixed69% of 96 reviews2017
Dev: Big Fat Alien
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Rogue Islands is a fast-paced, first-person shooter with magic & monsters set in a procedural fantasy wilderness. Explore forests, deserts, caves and mountains. Gain in power as you eradicate a demonic horde and inch closer to the Lords of Torment.
Why similar: Voxel 47.3% ★, Action 19.6%, Adventure 19%, Indie 14%
- #30 FortressCraft Evolved!
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Voxel 46.7% ★, Crafting 31.2%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 10.3%
- #31 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
75% matchMixed63% of 997 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Crafting 45.4%, Action 23%, Adventure 17.2%, Indie 14.4%
- #32 Cubic Odyssey
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Crafting 58%, Action 42%
- #33 Lost Skies: Island Creator
72% matchVery Positive84% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Humble Games
Windows
Sculpt your island, design places for other players to explore, and even set traps or create puzzles in the Lost Skies: Island Creator! Each island tells its own story; are you ready to craft yours?
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #34 Lost Rift
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Crafting 35.2%, FPS 33%, Action 16%, Adventure 15.8%
- #35 Survival: Lost Way
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 34%, FPS 28.3%, Action 19.7%, Adventure 18.1%
- #36 Survive The Island
73% matchMixed52% of 82 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Action 51.6%, Crafting 32.4%, FPS 15.9%
- #37 Lost in Paradise
74% matchMixed55% of 89 reviews2015
Dev: Elev8 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Immerse yourself in a lost paradise, with mystery beyond its pristine shores.
Why similar: Crafting 29.9%, Action 26.8%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 18.2%
- #38 Pixel Horizons
70% matchMixed64% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Dylan Ranshaw
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stranded on a beautiful island, craft tools, battle beasts, and uncover mythical weapons. Fight to survive, conquer ancient ruins, and master the wild in a high-stakes adventure. Will you prevail? - Created by a UC Santa Cruz Student
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #39 Goliath
73% matchMixed67% of 278 reviews2016
Dev: Whalebox StudioPub: Octopus Tree
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Welcome to a mysterious world filled with strange creatures, giant monsters and warring factions. You won't last long here on your own. Fortunately, you know how to build giant robots! Find the plans, gather the resources, climb inside your giant robotic creation and start punching monsters in the face!
Why similar: Action 33.8%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 20.9%, Crafting 18.4%
- #40 Dino Survivors
70% matchVery Positive89% of 61 reviews2023
Dev: Luminescent
Windows
Face hordes of Dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures in this survival game with minimalist gameplay! Dino Survivors is a casual game with Roguelite elements, where you need to be faster and survive several species of extinct animals. Your choices will determine this.
Why similar: Action 70.8%, Indie 29.2%
- #41 Boosted Survivors
68% matchVery Positive96% of 179 reviews2024
Dev: Clarity Games
Windows · Linux
Survive waves! Choose new abilities! Modify your hero in any way you like! Craft a powerful masterpiece, or a horrible concoction of awful ideas! Discover secrets! Sandbox your way to victory! Boost! Survive! Boosted Survivors!
Why similar: Action 73.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #42 Eden Island
69% matchMixed61% of 255 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Crafting 49.2%, Action 25.5%, Adventure 25.3%
- #43 Survivors: Island Adventure
67% matchVery Positive83% of 176 reviews2026
Dev: G5 Entertainment AB
Windows
Survive on a mysterious island after a plane crash! Solve match-3 puzzles, restore your camp, craft tools, grow crops, explore jungles and lagoons, uncover hidden treasures and reveal the island’s secrets!
Why similar: Adventure 66.8%, Crafting 33.2%
- #44 Project Castaway
66% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Crafting 46.2%, Action 28.4%, Adventure 25.4%
- #45 Gone: Survival
71% matchMixed44% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Crafting 53.9%, Action 20.7%, Adventure 15%, Indie 10.3%
- #46 Better Late Than DEAD
72% matchMostly Negative28% of 909 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
Why similar: Crafting 43.4%, Action 20.1%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 10.3%, FPS 7.1%
- #47 Dead District: Survival
69% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: FPS 34.1%, Crafting 32.2%, Action 20.9%, Adventure 12.8%
- #48 GRAV
69% 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: Crafting 49.5%, Adventure 22.2%, Action 19.7%, Indie 8.6%
- #49 Woodlands
70% matchMostly Negative29% of 295 reviews2017
Dev: Acuze Interactives
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Survive. Build shelter. Build a fire. Scavenge and kill for materials. Craft. Eat and drink. Do what you need to do to survive.
Why similar: Indie 35.2%, Action 32.9%, Adventure 31.9%
- #50 Outbreak Island
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Crafting 34.3%, FPS 32.4%, Action 18.4%, Adventure 14.9%
- #51 deer hunter II
67% matchVery Positive80% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
An archaeological survival game. Survive the desert, craft items, find remains of other players, and face your final challenge . . .
Why similar: Action 31.6%, Adventure 29.9%, Indie 23.4%, Crafting 15.1%
- #52 Planet Explorers
67% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Crafting 32.7%, Voxel 32.1% ★, Adventure 18.4%, Action 8.9%, Indie 7.9%
- #53 Warriors' Wrath
68% matchMixed81% of 170 reviews2016
Dev: Storm Sharks Production
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Loot. Craft. Build. Defend. Fight. Survive
Why similar: Action 38.7%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 25.4%