- #1 Dawn of Defiance
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Mythology 16.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9%, PvE 6.9%
- #2 Valheim
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Mythology 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #3 Underdrift: The Chinese Nether World
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 滑稽猫
Windows
“Underdrift: The Chinese Nether World” is a survival crafting game themed on the Chinese Hundred Ghosts. Discover islands in the realm of the afterlife, defeat various ghosts, gather resources, craft Chinese cuisine and ancient technology, and embark on a naval adventure unlike any other.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Steampunk 18.1% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Co-op 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%
- #4 Sagventyr
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheFirstStar
Windows
This action game incorporates elements unique to the medium—such as the spirit of exploration as you venture into the unknown, the tension of weighing the risks and rewards of combat, and the exhilaration of acquiring rare, hard-to-find items.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Mythology 12.4%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #5 The Last Viking
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Co-op 10.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #6 Niffelheim
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,338 reviews2018
Dev: Ellada Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Mythology 19.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Co-op 9.7%
- #7 TROLLHEIM: GNOMES
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trollheim
Windows
TROLLHEIM: GNOMES is a reimagined classic survival crafting game where you play as tiny gnomes in an ancient Nordic wilderness. Brave the elements, encounter the mythical Väsen that dwell within it and build your home among the trees, by yourself or with up to 7 friends. The Dark Forest found you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Mythology 11.3%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.9%
- #8 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.5%
- #9 Strayward
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Northoryn Games
Windows
STRAYWARD is an open-world voxel survival game set across a series of strange and isolated regions. Explore, scavenge, gather resources, build shelters, and fight to survive as you venture deeper into an unfamiliar world filled with persistent threats and unexplained phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.6%, Co-op 7.7%
- #10 Lodventure
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Co-op 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9%
- #11 SkyCraft
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.7%
- #12 Far Lands
88% matchMixed65% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.6%
- #13 Nightingale
87% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.2%
- #14 Nighthold
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.5%, Building 7.3%
- #15 Frozen Echo
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Silent Wish Games
Windows
Venture into the endless frozen wastelands alone or with friends. Stay warm, manage and upgrade your camp, hunt, and learning your skills to survive the harsh cold and wolf attacks.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Isometric 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Co-op 10.6%, Survival 10.5%
- #16 Elysium
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Artifika Games
Windows · Mac
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.4%, Co-op 7.8%
- #17 Aurendor
84% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.4%
- #18 Wildsite
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-land on a sci-fi planet plagued by toxic plasma storms. Alongside Bob, your sarcastic AI companion, build and shrink your base to move it anywhere. Fight with primitive or plasma weapons in this survival-craft adventure solo or with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.5%
- #19 Shamania
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Co-op 8.8%
- #20 SpiritBorn
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10%
- #21 Alight: Lunar Survival
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
[GAME CANCELLED] Stranded in the darkness, survive and build a base scattered across the lunar surface to generate electricity and alight the moon as you upgrade your equipment, struggle for oxygen, and escape fearsome monsters. Singleplayer only, you will survive, gather, craft, build, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%
- #22 Soulmask
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Mythology 12.6%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 7.7%
- #23 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,353 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.4%
- #24 Mythvale
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adevstudio
Windows
Tame, fight, explore and build! Survive a mysterious fantasy world filled with mythical creatures, dangerous foes and endless adventures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Dark Fantasy 7.5%
- #25 Subsistence
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 8.7%
- #26 Forever Skies
78% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%, Survival 9%
- #27 Ancient the Dimensions
79% matchNegative9% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: HEADSTONE STUDIO
Windows
Immerse yourself in an epic Survival Action RPG adventure, exploring a vast fantasy fairy tale world to build your own sanctuary and survive against extraordinary mythical creatures. Enhance your equipment, weapons, and skills to battle ruthless empires and interdimensional visitors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.5%
- #28 Wieldo
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Robin Nicolet
Windows
Wield your sword and your creativity to survive in this procedural world. Fight to build. Build to fight. Bring some friends and make it home 🏠
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Isometric 10.7%, Building 9.1%, Survival 9%
- #29 Beyond the Map
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 748 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Isometric 14.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 7.2%
- #30 Seaforge: Shores of Atlantis
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Glowbug Games
Windows
Beneath the waves, the world of Atlantis awaits. Build your home base on sunlit Mediterranean shores, then dive into sunken ruins to uncover secrets of the deep. Get stronger, dive deeper, and battle dark forces with up to 3 friends in this underwater survival crafting odyssey!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 10%
- #31 Grand Emprise 2: Portals Apart
76% matchMixed52% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
⛏️ Survival crafting adventure 💎 🌌 Through magical portals 🌀 👹 Into fantasy worlds 🏰 ⚡ Once-in-a-lifetime, high-paced, high-variety 💨 ⏳ The sequel to Grand Emprise: Time Travel 🕰️
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #32 Raft
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%
- #33 ExoTrain
74% matchPositive81% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Build your base on the train. Explore the exoplanet, face dangerous wildlife, and discover what happened to the human colony on this planet. Upgrade your train and combine gear to survive in a hostile environment. Play solo or team up with friends in co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Isometric 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%
- #34 Solace Crafting
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Building 8.8%
- #35 ENDALOR
74% matchMixed70% of 272 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #36 Core Keeper
73% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Co-op 9.6%
- #37 Divided Land
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mich
Windows
Join the fight for survival in a vast medieval open world. Explore, hunt, craft powerful gear, raid and plunder enemy villages, or forge your own path. As darkness falls, the dead awaken - prepare your defenses or seek shelter. Team up with allies in co-op PvE or face the wilderness alone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 9%
- #38 Force of Nature
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 8.6%, Building 8.3%
- #39 Last Breath
71% matchPositive81% of 47 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 13%, Crafting 10%, Building 8.3%
- #40 Planetaries
73% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #41 The Planet Crafter
71% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 9.4%, Survival 9.1%
- #42 Times of Survival
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Can Games Studio
Windows
Times of Survival is a co-op zombie survival game with souls-like inspired combat system, set in a post-apocalyptic world. Fortify your base, fight hordes of zombies and battle epic bosses. Explore, craft, and master punishing combat while building your settlement and leading survivors to hope.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Isometric 10.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%
- #43 Gravehollow
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silo Snowdash
Windows
Explore a living, procedurally generated world where creatures and characters act independently of you. Hunt, gather, craft, build, and fight to survive as you uncover the mystery of Gravehollow, where cheating death can awaken dangers best left undisturbed.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 9.8%
- #44 GreenMars: Expedition 744
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 744 Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival game where you explore a full planet, gather resources, build your base, deploy terraforming machines and drones, and begin turning hostile Martian terrain into the foundation of a new civilisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Building 10.4%, Survival 10%, Co-op 7.4%
- #45 Skyformer
69% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 10%, Survival 9%
- #46 Grounded
70% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Co-op 12.4%, Crafting 10.7%
- #47 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
In this first-person, non-combat RPG, scale a vast fantasy mountain. Craft gear, survive the ascent, and forge your own routes up to lost treasures. Trade these treasures to buy and upgrade gear so that you can climb higher. Reach the peak and uncover the mystery of this teleporting mountain.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.8%
- #48 ICARUS
70% 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 7.9%
- #49 Hordebreak
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Far North Entertainment
Windows
Hordebreak is an open world survival crafting game with big guns and hordes of thousands of monsters. Play alone or with friends, explore the fallen world, build fortified fortresses, craft & upgrade badass gear, and fulfil your reconquest of this fallen world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Isometric 9.2%, Open World 8.6%
- #50 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
67% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 11%, Co-op 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #51 Ruins of the Forgotten: A Wild Survival
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2 Dude Studios
Windows · Mac
Discover an open-world survival game that divides animals into two factions. While crafting, building, and taming animals, explore the forgotten ruins. Do whatever it takes to last another night and solve the mystery surrounding animal factions.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.2%
- #52 Wild
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 7.1%
- #53 World In The Abyss
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lazy Cat Studio
Windows
The aliens have caused the oceans to rise, plunging the world into the abyss. Survive, craft, and explore this mysterious underwater world. Build your base, defend it against relentless waves of enemies, and dive deep to uncover the secret that could stop the alien invasion once and for all!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 9.6%
- #54 Barbarian
66% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: CraftingBenchGames
Windows
Soulslike-inspired open-world survival RPG for 1-10 players. Master fluid combat with precise parries and dodges, defeat epic bosses, craft & upgrade gear, build your base, and share items with friends. Your progression persists across every world — play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9%, Character Customization 8.6%
- #55 Mayday: The Survival Island
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pequi studiosPub: indie.io
Windows
After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 9.2%, Survival 8.9%
- #56 Scrapnaut
68% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Co-op 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%
- #57 Eden Crafters
64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.3%, Open World 8%
- #58 Stoneguard
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Thorn Spire GamesPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement. Lead your fellow survivors into battle against waves of nocturnal monsters who wish to take this precious Lifestone from your world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%