- #1 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
97% matchVery Positive85% of 2,349 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 30.3% ★, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses heavily on sailing and open-world exploration across a vast ocean, making it a natural successor to the Breakwaters experience.
- #2 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 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: Survival 30.6%, Building 16.8%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive ocean-survival experience that mirrors the island-hopping and resource-gathering loop found in Breakwaters.
- #3 Sunkenland
96% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26.4%, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 16.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines underwater exploration with island-based survival and base building, capturing the post-apocalyptic maritime vibe.
- #4 Subnautica
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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: Survival 25.8%, Open World 21%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled underwater exploration and survival mechanics that align perfectly with the aquatic themes of the seed game.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 20.3%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: While land-based, its deep building mechanics and focus on exploring a dangerous, mysterious world provide a similar sense of progression.
- #6 Stranded Deep
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 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: Survival 29%, Open World 19.4%, Crafting 17%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic island-survival game that emphasizes the struggle against the elements while navigating between tropical landmasses.
- #7 Volcanoids
93% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Building 16.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Open World 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on a mobile base that protects you from environmental hazards mirrors the need for tactical positioning in Breakwaters.
- #8 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
92% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 16.1%, Building 15.6%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and building where the environment itself is a massive, dangerous obstacle.
- #9 Aloft
91% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game features floating islands and sailing mechanics that provide a similar sense of freedom and vertical exploration.
- #10 Forever Skies
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Open World 17.7%, Building 17.6%, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Instead of water, you navigate a ruined world via airship, providing a similar feeling of traversal and resource management.
- #11 Valheim
90% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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: Survival 19.7%, Building 18.8%, Open World 17.7%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: The exploration, sailing, and base-building loop is highly polished and offers the same rewarding sense of adventure as the seed game.
- #12 The Planet Crafter
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Building 19.1%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the 'transforming the environment' aspect of survival, which resonates with the water-manipulation mechanics of Breakwaters.
- #13 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
88% matchVery Positive91% of 59,745 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 25.3% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 14.8%, Open World 12%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the technical side of building vehicles and ships to navigate dangerous waters, this is the premier choice.
- #14 Survival: Fountain of Youth
87% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 13.5%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed survival game that focuses on historical exploration and island-hopping in the Caribbean.
- #15 Scrap Mechanic
85% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 16.2%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox that allows for complex mechanical building, perfect for those who enjoy the engineering side of survival games.
- #16 Escape The Pacific
89% matchMixed67% of 761 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
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 25.7% ★, Building 13.4%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic, physics-heavy survival game that demands careful management of your resources while at sea.
- #17 Subnautica: Below Zero
86% matchVery Positive90% of 108,186 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 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: Survival 25.2%, Open World 21%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A standalone expansion that refines the underwater survival formula with new biomes and narrative-driven exploration.
- #18 Pacific Drive
84% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 21.1%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, physics-based survival experience where your vehicle is your only lifeline against a hostile, changing world.
- #19 ICARUS
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Survival 23%, Building 16.7%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: The session-based survival and intense environmental challenges provide a high-stakes experience for those who enjoy the titan-battling aspect.
- #20 Make Sail
86% matchMixed55% of 110 reviews2018
Dev: Popcannibal
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Physics 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on the physics of sailing and building custom vessels to traverse a challenging ocean.
- #21 TerraTech Worlds
83% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 17%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, alien open world with deep building and customization mechanics for your exploration vehicles.
- #22 Green Hell
82% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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: Survival 26.9%, Open World 16%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: For players who want a more hardcore, realistic survival experience in a dense, unforgiving environment.
- #23 Sons Of The Forest
79% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 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 23.2%, Open World 19.4%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A more advanced iteration of survival-building mechanics that features a massive, detailed map to explore.
- #24 Start Over
81% matchMixed61% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
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 14.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and survival with tower-defense elements, offering a unique twist on the standard survival loop.
- #25 Retreat To Enen
82% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
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 16.5%, Survival 16.1%, Building 15.1%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on a more relaxing, meditative survival experience with a heavy emphasis on building and environmental harmony.
- #26 The Forest
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,573 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 29.1%, Open World 20.7%, Building 16%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at building and survival in a hostile wilderness, providing a strong sense of tension and discovery.
- #27 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 25.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%
- #28 Sea of Craft
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 455 reviews2023
Dev: Wizard Games
Windows
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%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Exploration 7%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for highly detailed ship construction and exploration, catering to the nautical interests of Breakwaters players.
- #29 No Man's Sky
78% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World 30.3%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 17.6%, Exploration 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate sandbox for exploration and survival, offering endless islands and planets to discover and build upon.
- #30 Everwind
75% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 19.7%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 15.2%
- #31 Junk Survivor
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
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 16.5%, Open World 14.8%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%
- #32 Voyagers of Nera
73% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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%
- #33 Hold Your Own
77% matchMixed67% of 576 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: Survival 17.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 14.8%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 13.6%
- #34 Landless
78% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
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 14.8%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game set entirely on the water, requiring you to build and maintain a floating base.
- #35 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 18.5%, Open World 17.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 11.6%
- #36 UNDER the WATER - an ocean survival game
76% matchMostly Negative33% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: UTW Team
Windows
How long do you survive on a small island in the middle of a flooded world?
Why similar: Sailing 30.9% ★, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #37 Project Castaway
72% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 17.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 15.9%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 12%
- #38 Project Cobalt
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ 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 15.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 13.8%
- #39 Re.poly
74% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
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 17.8%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Action-Adventure 9.2%
- #40 Creatures Inc
75% matchMixed54% of 162 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
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 25.4%, Open World 14.9%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 11.2%
- #41 Sandustry
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 16.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%
- #42 Ocean Is Home : Island Life Simulator
73% matchMixed63% of 150 reviews2022
Dev: BirdyDog Studio
Windows · Mac
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 17.3%, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13.7%
- #43 Forgotten Seas
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 594 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
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 23.6% ★, Building 16.9%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 8.7%
- #44 Away From Life
70% matchMixed67% of 229 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: Building 18.1%, Sandbox 16%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12.2%
- #45 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Crafting 18.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 14.8%, Open World 14.4%
- #46 Len's Island
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 14.9%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.1%
- #47 Oceaneers
68% matchVery Positive89% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
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 20.2%, Crafting 17%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #48 ToGather:Island
71% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: Studio KamiiPub: Todak Studios
Windows
ToGather:Island is an open world survival game set in a science-fantasy archipelago
Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 12.3%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Open World 9.1%
- #49 Salt
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,251 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Survival 20.5%, Open World 20.5%, Sailing 18.5% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 14.2%
- #50 DYSMANTLE
67% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 22.1%, Open World 20.7%, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 10%
- #51 ATLAS
69% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Sailing 35.3% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #52 Windrose
63% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 27.6% ★, Survival 14.7%, Building 14%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.5%
- #53 Outbreak Island
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,082 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 20%, Survival 19.5%, Building 15%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.7%
- #54 Under A New Sun
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Survival 21.1%, Open World 19.8%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Base Building 9.8%
- #55 Forsaken Isle
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 518 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Crafting 26%, Sandbox 24%, Adventure 5.1%, Action 4.8%
- #56 Lost Skies
65% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 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: Sandbox 22.6%, Open World 16.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Character Customization 11.9%
- #57 Novus Inceptio
70% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 16.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 15.4%, Building 15.2%, Crafting 13.3%
