Games Like Bootstrap Island

Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death

Why similar: VR 20.7%, Survival 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11%, Nature 10.8%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Immerse yourself in a harrowing, realistic tropical rainforest survival experience that matches Bootstrap Island's intense VR wilderness challenges.

Using the power of virtual reality, Song in the Smoke puts your survival directly in your own hands. Enter this dangerous world outside of time, where you must craft weapons, make clothes, build fires, and brew healing elixirs to steel yourself against its vicious predators.

Why similar: VR 21.6%, Immersive Sim 15.8%, Nature 11.8%, Survival 8.8%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric VR survival adventure features deep crafting, hunting, and primal environmental challenges akin to surviving on a deserted island.

Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

Why similar: VR 34.9%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 15.1%, Realistic 8%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Bootstrap Island's uncompromising, realistic survival mechanics and tense, atmospheric exploration from a first-person VR perspective.

Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.

Why similar: VR 33.7%, Survival 19.2%, Roguelike 14.9%, Perma Death 12%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This VR survival-horror game captures the same high-stakes, perma-death tension and resource scarcity found in Bootstrap Island's roguelike structure.

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: Survival 37.5%, Open World 25.8%, Realistic 11.8%, Exploration 7%, Adventure 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Bootstrap Island, it strands you in the middle of a vast ocean where you must master open-world survival craft mechanics to stay alive.

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: Survival 22.9%, Open World 17%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Realistic 14.3%, Exploration 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This brutal 16th-century island survival game matches the historical setting, crafting systems, and treacherous wildlife exploration of the seed game.

If you’ve ever wondered what being stranded on an island might be like, this VR game is for you, buddy. Using the advice of a new friend, Carl the Crab, you’ve gotta find a way to keep yourself from starving and survive as long as possible.

Why similar: VR 44.2%, Simulation 29.5%, Survival 26.3%

Why You'll Like It: A lighter yet fundamentally similar stranded-island survival game where every second counts against nature's harsh elements.

Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.

Why similar: VR 38%, Survival 25.1%, Open World 24.5%, Adventure 6.5%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty VR survival game emphasizing open-world looting, base building, and raw endurance against hostile environments.

Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!

Why similar: VR 29.2%, Survival 20.3%, Nature 15.6%, Open World 13.9%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Translates the grueling nature-focused survival mechanics of Bootstrap Island into an equally punishing frozen wasteland.

Pirates VR Jolly Roger is a game alluding to old stories of the all-time most famous Pirates. The journey into the pirate world begins on a deserted island. Despite its extraordinary charm, the land hides a number of secrets and mysteries to be solved as well as obstacles and traps.

Why similar: VR 40.5%, Realistic 13.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Physics 10.1%, Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the period-appropriate 17th-century atmosphere and dangerous island exploration of Bootstrap Island.

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Why similar: VR 36.1%, Open World 21.1%, Survival 19.3%, Exploration 9.5%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An uncompromising open-world VR survival experience featuring roguelite mechanics and a desperate struggle against isolation.

Z.O.N.A Project X - thrilling single-player VR shooter. Explore Chornobyl's exclusion zone, a hazardous apocalyptic world filled with anomalies. Survive using your weapons, scavenge for resources, and save humanity from doom.

Why similar: VR 26.6%, Open World 17.1%, Immersive Sim 16.5%, Survival 10.8%, Realistic 9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers the same gritty, realistic first-person gunplay, atmosphere, and dangerous open-world exploration seen in Bootstrap Island.

Virtual Hunter brings realistic hunting to virtual reality. Pack your gear and put your hunting skills and tactics to the test in the open wilderness.

Why similar: VR 19.6%, Life Sim 14.7%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Open World 11.9%, Nature 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the patient tracking and immersive nature interaction required to find food in unforgiving wilderness settings.

Welcome to Seeking Dawn, a multiplayer survival VR adventure that takes you far beyond the solar system. Step into the shoes of a soldier discovering a hostile planet, where predators roam free and enemies are ruthless.

Why similar: VR 58.5%, Survival 27.4%, Adventure 14%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an ambitious sci-fi VR survival adventure with heavy emphasis on crafting, exploration, and hostile alien wildlife.

Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.

Why similar: Survival 30.9%, Realistic 19.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Exploration 11.3%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses intensely on the granular, manual interaction with survival tools that makes virtual reality survival uniquely challenging.

Plunge into VR on a capsizing research ship, the Triton, where survival means outmaneuvering the water's lethal surge. Freedive through a sinking ship, overcome underwater chaos, and unlock your path to the surface, all while protecting your most precious resource: the breath in your lungs.

Why similar: VR 27.8%, Survival 15.6%, Physics 14%, Realistic 8.7%, Exploration 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a claustrophobic, high-tension VR exploration experience where managing your vitals is key to survival.

Get ready to paddle through some of the world's wildest, and most challenging rapids in breathtaking VR. With stunning graphics, realistic physics, and heart-pumping action, you'll race against the clock as you navigate through wild waters filled with obstacles and surprises.

Why similar: VR 25.1%, Nature 16.7%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Realistic 13%, Physics 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your physical reflexes and navigational instincts against wild, untamed natural water bodies in VR.

Immerse yourself in a prehistoric ecosystem brought back from extinction. Survive and carve out your niche on islands teeming with danger and opportunity!

Why similar: Life Sim 19.1%, Nature 15%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you into a dangerous open-world life-simulation where surviving prehistoric predators requires constant vigilance.

Survive on a deserted island with no modern tools or electricity. Gather resources, craft everything you need, and adapt to changing seasons including winter conditions. No zombies, no supernatural. Man vs nature survival. Your adventure, your choice.

Why similar: Nature 17.7%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 16.8%, Realistic 11.6%, Immersive Sim 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A heavy survival and crafting focus within an open-world sandbox environment designed for persistent players.

A VR rogue-lite shooter where you must survive waves of sea creatures while building your Super Raft Boat. Can you reach the Final Island?

Why similar: VR 43%, Roguelike 21.2%, Perma Death 15.7%, 6DOF 9.4% ★, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a watery setting with fast-paced VR roguelike survival elements in a uniquely perilous environment.

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: Survival 33.3%, Open World 31.2%, Nature 19.6%, Adventure 8.3%, Action 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players with deep island-based resource gathering, base building, and crafting in an open world.

Virtual Battlegrounds is a VR Battle Royale built from the ground up for virtual reality. Battle to become the last warrior standing on this dystopian war-crazed island with tactical gun-play, an epic map, and physically controlled locomotion.

Why similar: VR 60.9%, Simulation 16.3%, Action 11.6%, Adventure 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense tactical movement and realistic gun handling within a large-scale island environment.

Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.

Why similar: Open World 70.2%, Adventure 20%, First-Person 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: Explores a mysterious island setting through open-world adventure and sandbox exploration.

A world filled with tricksters, pirates, zealots, and treasures. An ocean full of danger and prize. Face dilemmas and encounters. Manage a resort in this wild world and build a thriving business. An Explorer, a Survivor a Resorter or a Trader? Forge your own path to wealth. Make Resort Prosper!

Why similar: Life Sim 38.5%, Immersive Sim 15.8%, Simulation 13.9%, Realistic 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an alternative perspective on island living, focusing on management and survival mechanics in a tropical locale.

You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.

Why similar: Survival 35.9%, Open World 32%, Realistic 15.2%, Action 5.6%, First-Person 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines historical pirate themes with base building and open-world survival gameplay loops.

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Perma Death 39.4%, Adventure 29.3%, Action 25.9%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features an island-hopping adventure driven by exploration and high-stakes perma-death mechanics.

Detached is a suspenseful interstellar duel that demands tactics and skill to survive. Separated from your unit you must make smart decisions and race to safety in this visceral exploration of deep space. Strap yourself into your spacesuit for thrilling gameplay designed for VR headsets.

Why similar: VR 17.7%, Immersive Sim 16.1%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 11.5%, Physics 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same heart-pounding sense of isolation and high-stress environmental mastery found in top-tier VR experiences.

GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.

Why similar: VR 26.7%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 16.5%, Physics 11.6%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival crafting experience set in an open world that tests your ability to endure the elements.

Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR is the first hardcore Rogue-like in Virtual Reality with a Sci-fi atmosphere and AAA graphics. It features a hard but rich gameplay focused on resources management, craft and strategy.

Why similar: VR 47.1%, Survival 15%, Simulation 14.3%, Adventure 9.6%, Realistic 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes absolute isolation and desperate problem-solving in a harsh, unyielding virtual reality world.

A world filled with tricksters, pirates, zealots, and treasures. An ocean full of danger and prize. Face dilemmas and encounters. Manage a resort in this wild world and build a thriving business. An Explorer, a Survivor a Resorter or a Trader? Forge your own path to wealth. Make Resort Prosper!

Why similar: Life Sim 35%, Immersive Sim 21.6%, Simulation 17.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Survival 5.2%

Storm Chasing Simulator

Why similar: Nature 20.6%, Open World 16.8%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Realistic 14.4%, Simulation 7.7%

Open World, Multiplayer VR Pirate Game!

Why similar: VR 27.3%, Immersive Sim 19.7%, 6DOF 11.8% ★, Open World 11.7%, Simulation 9.2%

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.7%, Simulation 23.2%, Survival 20.5%, Adventure 17%, Perma Death 10.7%

Survive in a realistic Tasmanian wilderness recreated with real‑world data. The land is beautiful, harsh, and indifferent to your survival.

Why similar: Open World 18.7%, Survival 18.2%, Nature 17.8%, Realistic 16%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers immersive VR world traversal and environmental interaction that complements atmospheric exploration.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Survival 37.9%, Roguelike 18.7%, Perma Death 16.7%, Simulation 13.8%, Adventure 9.7%

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Survival 16.8%, Open World 16.6%, Immersive Sim 16%, Nature 14.8%, Realistic 12.5%

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 35%, Open World 30.8%, Realistic 16%, Simulation 10.1%, Adventure 4.6%

Island 359 is a Virtual Reality survival game for the HTC Vive and Oculus Touch. Players will scrounge for weapons, upgrades, food, and other items they can find to survive for as long as they can against hordes of dinosaurs, as they explore the increasingly dangerous, beautiful, and expansive island.

Why similar: VR 56.6%, Adventure 22.4%, Action 21%

A peaceful life in nature or a fight for survival? Explore a realistic forest, survive, discover abandoned places, and uncover why the forest refuses to let you leave.

Why similar: Nature 19.1%, Survival 15.5%, Life Sim 14.5%, 6DOF 12.2% ★, Realistic 8.7%

Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!

Why similar: Open World 38.2%, Nature 26.8%, Exploration 16%, Simulation 8.3%, First-Person 5.5%

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: Survival 35.4%, Open World 23.7%, Exploration 15.3%, Atmospheric 9%, Action 6.1%

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: Open World 33.6%, Survival 32.2%, Adventure 13.6%, Exploration 12.1%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

Why similar: Survival 40%, Adventure 17.2%, Exploration 16.8%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Action 8.6%

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: Survival 41.7%, Open World 33.9%, Exploration 7.5%, Simulation 5.2%, Adventure 4.9%

How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.

Why similar: VR 55.2%, Survival 25.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Action 7.7%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Survival 29.5%, Open World 29.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Simulation 9%, Adventure 6.3%

Slide anywhere on your hoverboard at extreme speeds! Explore the massive open world of Jet Island! Learn to skate on any surface, swing from tall buildings, fly in ways you never knew were possible! Defeat the 4 giant boss fights! Get ready to experience complete freedom in VR!

Why similar: VR 65.9%, Simulation 14.2%, Adventure 10%, Action 9.9%

Kayak VR: Mirage is a jaw-dropping and exhilarating journey through beautiful locations, made for Virtual Reality. Maneuver our fully physically accurate kayak around checkpoints and crown yourself the fastest, or take it easy and use the free roam mode and enjoy the scenery.

Why similar: VR 34.5%, Nature 14.6%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Realistic 13%, Physics 8.8%

Explore 120+ Backrooms levels in a massive single‑player survival adventure. Build, craft, fight, or just wander endless liminal spaces shaped by the community.

Why similar: VR 27.6%, Survival 17.5%, Physics 15.2%, Open World 12.3%, Realistic 8%

Prologue: Go Wayback! is a single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike where every journey is unique. Traverse a new wilderness that is generated for you every time you play. Chart your path, overcome the elements, and write your own story of exploration.

Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Open World 17.5%, Immersive Sim 17.3%, Realistic 11.7%, Nature 10.4%

Forget what you have played so far, SURV1V3 is a unique realistic zombie survival fps game expressly designed for VIRTUAL REALITY that will let you test your survival skills. Play the thrilling story in single mode or coop with your friends (up to 4 players) and survive the apocalypse!

Why similar: VR 63.5%, Survival 12%, Simulation 9.6%, Action 8.5%, Adventure 6.4%

How long do you survive on a small island in the middle of a flooded world?

Why similar: Open World 17.9%, Physics 14.1%, Survival 12.5%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, 6DOF 11.7% ★

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 66.5%, Adventure 18.5%, Action 12.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.

Why similar: VR 47.2%, Physics 20.8%, Realistic 11.6%, Simulation 5.9%, Action 5.1%

Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with your robot companion, gather resources, and maintain the Atlas network in hardcore VR, where order is a matter of choice.

Why similar: VR 24.5%, Open World 19%, Survival 13.8%, Realistic 12.2%, Physics 7.3%

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: Nature 23.2%, Survival 21.9%, Realistic 15%, Exploration 9.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Take on the role of a castaway on a wrecked container ship. Survive for 3 days, battle storms, hunt animals, build shelter, and maintain your hunger and thirst, attempting to endure isolation and pirates in the middle of the Pacific. Can you stay alive?

Why similar: Survival 32.7%, Physics 16.6%, Exploration 11.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Action 7.3%

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: Survival 50.3%, Open World 24.8%, Adventure 13%, Action 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

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: Survival 57.5%, Open World 28.3%, Adventure 5.6%, Simulation 3.5%, First-Person 2.2%