Games Like Breakwaters: Crystal Tides

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Survival 26.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 16.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar post-apocalyptic ocean survival experience with underwater exploration, island base building, and resource gathering.

Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Why similar: Sailing 30.1% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11%

Why You'll Like It: Features open-world exploration, sailing, and crafting across procedurally generated islands much like the maritime focus of Breakwaters.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Sailing 19.9% ★, Building 15.1%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and island building mechanics in an open-world setting, replacing water with floating sky islands.

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 16.9%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed single-player survival game centered on exploring uncharted islands and crafting tools to conquer harsh natural environments.

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 30.7%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Centers heavily on ocean survival, gathering debris, and expanding a floating base while exploring the vast sea.

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: Building 16.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 14%, Open World 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base building and survival against massive environmental threats, echoing the tension of facing Titans.

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: Survival 16.2%, Building 15.5%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival crafting game featuring large-scale exploration and creature combat from a unique perspective.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 20.5%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features robust voxel-based building and open-world survival mechanics similar to the sandbox freedom of the seed game.

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Building 16.9%, Sandbox 15.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides sandbox crafting and base building mechanics across diverse alien worlds with heavy vehicle creation elements.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 21.4%, Sandbox 16.1%, Survival 15%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mechanical building and open-world sandbox experimentation matching the creative crafting elements of Breakwaters.

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: Survival 25.9%, Open World 21.2%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers an immersive underwater open-world survival and crafting experience that complements the marine focus of Breakwaters.

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 29.1%, Open World 19.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Places you in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where you must survive on small islands and salvage shipwrecks.

Make boats and sail them. Survive an ocean of storms and beasts to find better pieces to make your ship bigger, faster, stronger, prettier, stranger, wilder: more yours.

Why similar: Sailing 33% ★, Building 22.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Physics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes physics-based ship building and ocean exploration using wind power to navigate uncharted waters.

Hello! Captain! “Sea Of Craft” is a sandbox ocean-building game with realistic physics simulation. In “Sea of Craft”, you can build your exclusive ship with hundreds of materials, and explore intriguing stages on planet Beella as well as adventures of wonders in the great ocean!

Why similar: Crafting 16.3%, Open World 16.1%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Exploration 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to design and build custom watercraft to explore open-world oceans and complete survival challenges.

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: Survival 27%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An uncompromising survival simulator that emphasizes realistic crafting, shelter building, and navigating dangerous wilderness environments.

Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Why similar: Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 16.2%, Building 15.1%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a relaxing survival experience focusing on exploration, crafting, and living off the land in lush natural biomes.

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Building 15.8%, Open World 14%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox survival and base-building game with crafting elements centered around managing resources and shelter.

Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.

Why similar: Sailing 38.7% ★, Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Character Customization 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An ocean-focused cooperative adventure game centered on sailing, discovering islands, and surviving maritime hazards.

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: Survival 25.8%, Crafting 18.1%, Open World 17.9%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox open-world survival game focusing on base building, upgrading gear, and enduring harsh natural hazards.

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: Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 17%, Building 15.8%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic island survival game featuring open-world exploration, crafting, and cooperative ocean mechanics.

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: Survival 29.2%, Open World 20.9%, Building 15.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival, base building, and combat against aggressive threats in a forested island setting.

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

Why similar: Sailing 30.7% ★, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep ocean survival and island exploration elements directly comparable to Breakwaters' marine focus.

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: Survival 18.6%, Open World 17.8%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 15.4%, Base Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building open-world survival game featuring intense action elements and hostile planetary environments.

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: Survival 17.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 14.8%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game featuring sandbox base construction and resource management in an open world.

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Sailing 25.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Survival 16.6%, Open World 14.9%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game focusing on scavenging and building using makeshift materials.

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Building 19.6%, Open World 17%, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 15.1%

Creatures Inc is an open world survival experience where taming creatures is the key to survival. Explore a hostile world solo or in 2 player online co-op, make impactful choices, upgrade your character, and turn deadly creatures into powerful allies.

Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Open World 15%, Building 14%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: An indie simulation and survival game incorporating sandbox crafting and environmental exploration.

ToGather:Island is an open world survival game set in a science-fantasy archipelago

Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Crafting 16.6%, Building 12.2%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure survival game set on stylized islands emphasizing exploration, crafting, and co-op simulation.

Ocean is Home is an island life simulator and an open world adventure rolled into one. Starting with a small house and an old pickup truck, you can build an estate and become a significant person in a warm tropical paradise.

Why similar: Building 17.2%, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Puts players on an island to build a life, manage resources, and explore open-world environments.

Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?

Why similar: Building 15.2%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 9.5%

You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!

Why similar: Sailing 23.5% ★, Building 16.9%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 8.6%

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: Sailing 25.6% ★, Building 13.3%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 11.6%

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: Building 18.9%, Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 13%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Building 16.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%

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: Building 18%, Sandbox 15.9%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12.4%

⚗️ 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: Building 16.1%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 13.8%

Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.7%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 15.4%, Action-Adventure 9.3%

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Sailing 26.9% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 15.8%, Open World 13%, Survival 10.7%

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Why similar: Building 20.7%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%

Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!

Why similar: Building 16.4%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 12.1%

Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

Why similar: Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 15.5%, Building 15.2%, Crafting 13.3%

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Open World 20.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 9.9%

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: Survival 21.1%, Open World 20%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%

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: Sandbox 22.5%, Open World 17%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Character Customization 11.8%

「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.

Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Open World 26.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Action-Adventure 15%, Exploration 10.9%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 14.8%, Open World 14.6%

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: Sandbox 19.9%, Survival 19.6%, Building 15%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%

A shopkeeping adventure for 1-8 players. Cook, fish, fight, and sell your way through a magical island!

Why similar: Building 18.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 9.5%

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!

Why similar: Sailing 27.5% ★, Survival 14.8%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9.6%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Building 20.3%, Survival 19.7%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 11.1%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Building 20%, Survival 19.4%, Open World 18.7%, Base Building 13%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Building 20.4%, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 11.5%

Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.

Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Open World 14.9%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 9.3%

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: Survival 19.4%, Open World 18.1%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 16.6%, Building 10.6%

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

Why similar: Survival 36.2%, Crafting 25.9%, Sandbox 23.9%, Adventure 5.1%, Action 4.9%